The main objectives of the study are: a) to identify the attitudes of advanced learners of the Siraiki language towards using a dictionary for learning a language, b) to identify the types of dictionaries that advanced learners of the Siraiki language prefer most and c) to identify the preferences of advanced learners of the Siraiki language towards their dictionaries and to identify their hurdles and problems towards dictionary use. Descriptive in nature, the study is quantitative approach and has employed survey questionnaire as tool of data collection.
This study investigates the attitudes and preferences of advanced learners of the Siraiki language towards Siraiki dictionaries available in Pakistan. These sample sentences are invaluable in that they help the learner to see the syntactic properties of words in addition to their denotations. A clarifying sample Turkish sentence is provided together with its English translation for each meaning. This dictionary covers most frequently used 4456 words. Learners’ dictionaries are not expected to cover all the words for practical reasons because ordinary people or the educated for that matter normally use no more than a few thousand words. Turkish is a rich language with more than a hundred thousand words. Therefore, it is more of a learners’ dictionary whose primary aim is to help students of Turkish who not only try to understand but also produce the language. This dictionary has been produced to meet such a need. Although many people study Turkish either in Turkey or abroad today, there is not a dictionary especially compiled for learners of Turkish as a foreign language. Turkish is one of the major languages in the world spoken by hundreds of millions of people in Europe and Asia.
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