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Make your reading plan for this year!
Make sure that you will set realistic goals.

There are several ways to make a reading plan, by month is the simplest. You can pair each month with a genre, plan out what books you want to read in the most busiest month of the year and what to read on vacation!

2010- 2011

Chen compared the relevance of various types of dictionaries for vocabulary learning,

testing word retention at the end of the experimental session and two weeks later.

Dziemianko and Bogaards studied the effectiveness of paper and electronic dictionaries

2000

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Laufer and Hill implimented an electronic dictionary, to study their influence on immediate word retention.

1993

of both types of information leads to the best results.

it focused on the productive part by using definitions and examples given.

the students were provided with either a definition or an example,

Laufer had students translate a number of isolated low frequency words and then use these words in a sentence.

1982

the results are rather vague and inconclusive

methodology based on retrospection and on oral protocols were used

The first study aimed at measuring the effect of the use of bilingual dictionaries in writing in a foreign language.

2001-2002

Van der Kloot studied the effectiveness of grammati- cal information,

1990

seeking to confirm or reject strictly formulated hypotheses

vocabulary acquisition through dictionary use.

the production of words or texts

comprehension of words or texts,

dictionary use was more experimental in nature and the methodologies

1984

The researchers did not find significant differences who did use a dictionary, bilingual or monolingual.

use a monolingual or a bilingual dictionary.

the content of context were studied

800 students had to read texts in English as a second language and to answer multiple choice questions

1980

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if they were satisfied with the information found.

the research did not get any precise conclusions about the strengths or weaknesses of specific (types of) dictionaries.

what they looked up,

questionnaires were used to ask users how often they used a dictionary,