AILA Symposium on the Use of Learners' Dictionaries

Euralex Congress 2002

13 – 17 August

In the section on Dictionary Use of the Euralex 2002 Congress several researchers will present papers on the use of learners' dictionaries. In an afternoon session we would like to discuss these and other topics concerning the effectiveness of learners' dictionaries.

In order to start this discussion we would like to invite

• researchers in this field to present the results of their experimental investigations in the Dictionary Use section

• compilers of learners' dictionaries in all languages to comment on the experimental outcomes during the AILA Symposium

The symposium is meant to be a meeting place for lexicographers who try to make their dictionaries ever more effective for non-native learners of a language and researchers who try to gain deeper insight in the ways learners profit from these dictionaries.

As to the research papers, they have to be submitted before November 15 to the Euralex Congress organizers (elx2002@cst.dk; see also the web site www.cst.dk/elx2002).
They are requested to send an e-mail copy of their text to P.Bogaards@let.leidenuniv.nl.
After acceptation of their proposal they have to send one extra copy of their text to the same address.

As to compilers of learners' dictionaries, those who are willing to participate in the symposium are requested to make themselves known to P.Bogaards@let.leidenuniv.nl as soon as possible.
They will receive the texts of the accepted papers before the Congress (in April 2002) and they will be free to comment on one or more of the pieces of research. Comments will be about 15 minutes long.

During the symposium commenters will speak first, researchers will reply, and all participants can join afterwards in a general discussion.

For all information about this symposium contact one of the members of the AILA Scientific Commission on Lexicology and Lexicography:
Paul Bogaards at P.Bogaards@let.leidenuinv.nl,
Batia Laufer at batialauf@research.haifa.il,
Yukio Tono at y.tono@lancaster.ac.uk or
Krista Varantola at TRKVA@uta.fi.

For all other matters, such as registration, contact the congress organizers:
Anna Braasch at elx2002@cst.dk.