How effective is the electronic dictionary in sense discrimination?

Lexikos

Volumn 19, Issue , 2009, Pages 262-274

  Tan, Kim Hua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Actual efficacy; Efficacy; Electronic dictionaries; Polysemous words; Printed dictionaries; Self perceived efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949516025     PISSN: 16844904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/lex.v19i1.49130     Document Type: Article

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