Interviews with undergraduate students from the University of Ljubljana, who are majoring in English and can be considered language specialists, investigated habits of dictionary use, look-up abilities, and perceptions of the utility and quality of definitions and illustrative examples. This contrasts with a parallel study (Farina et al. 2019) with undergraduates majoring in business and economics. Like the parallel study, this study was based on fourteen questions and nine contexts containing a clearly-marked common word used in an infrequent sense; participants had to locate the sense in a dictionary that, at the time of the studies, was the online Merriam–Webster Learner’s Dictionary, rebranded today as The Britannica Dictionary. Participants were asked to think aloud as they looked up words. Among other results, the study revealed that its participants, while they were linguistically-educated and experienced, did not fully grasp the complexity of presenting dictionary information online.

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词典编纂者的理想听众：斯洛文尼亚大学英语专业学生的词典使用

采访了卢布尔雅那大学的英语专业本科生，他们被认为是语言专家，调查了词典使用习惯、查找能力以及对定义和示例的实用性和质量的看法。这与一项针对商业和经济学专业本科生的平行研究（Farina 等人，2019 年）形成对比。与平行研究一样，这项研究基于 14 个问题和 9 个上下文，其中包含一个在不常见意义上使用的明确标记的常用词；参与者必须在字典中找到意义，在研究期间，该字典是在线 Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary，今天更名为 The Britannica Dictionary。参与者被要求在查找单词时大声思考。在其他结果中，