Hilary Nesi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1498286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hilary Nesi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hilary |
| FAMILY NAME | Nesi |
| SIGNATURE | NESI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4966-1304 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Dictionary Use
Dictionaries are tools which people use to access information about words.
Stories and scenarios: Lecturers’ use of fantastic hypothetical events
Warning Notes in a Learner’s Dictionary: A Study of the Effectiveness of Different Formats
This study used an online correction task to explore the extent to which different types of warning notes in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online were heeded when users tried to correct errors in the use of L2 target words. The task was completed by 332 participants, yielding 1,819 answers produced after clicking on links to relevant entries. Warning notes were categorised in terms of their formatting features, but there were found t…
Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing
Discipline, Level, Genre: Integrating Situational Perspectives in a New MD Analysis of University Student Writing
While there have been many investigations of academic genres, and of the linguistic features of academic discourse, few studies have explored how these interact across a range of university student writing situations. To counter misconceptions that have arisen regarding student writing, this article aims to provide comprehensive linguistic descriptions of a wide range of university assignment genres in relation to multiple situational variables. …
Evaluation in research article introductions: A comparison of the strategies used by Chinese and British authors
This article investigates differences in evaluative style in introductions to research articles written by scholars from China and Britain. A corpus of 30 research article introductions in applied linguistics was analysed in terms of Appraisal Theory and genre analysis, using the UAM Corpus Tool. Findings from this analysis suggest that both the Chinese and the British authors were aware of the need to argue for their own opinions and maintain go…
The Adaptation of Chinese Split-Site Business Students to British Classrooms: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Image of the Monolingual Dictionary Across Europe. Results of the European Survey of Dictionary use and Culture
The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was delivered via an online survey platfo…
The Bawe Quicklinks Project: A New DDL Resource for University Students
This paper outlines a new initiative aimed at integrating concordances and other corpus outputs into written feedback for learners of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Although data-driven learning has by now a 30-year history, it has yet to have a great impact on mainstream pedagogy despite various claims regarding its efficacy and its benefits in terms of promoting learner autonomy. This situation may be due to technical barriers to the use …
An analysis of the evaluation contexts in academic discourse
This paper develops a new framework to examine the use of ‘evaluation resources’ in research discourse. In previous studies of evaluative resources, two distinct, although interwoven, types of context have been identified: 1) the real world where evaluation resources are used to describe situations, and 2) the research world studying the real world, where they are used to engage readers and open up debate. In this paper, we will propose three con…
Korean and English ‘dictionary’ questions
This paper proposes an alternative to questionnaire surveys and other methods of investigating dictionary user expectations, wants and needs: the content analysis of dictionary-related queries on online general-purpose Q&A sites. Web postings are anonymous and are not associated with any particular institution or dictionary developer, so they tend to reflect the ordinary concerns of users looking for unbiased practical answers in authentic contex…
Dictionary use by English language learners
Research into dictionary use does not have a long history. Although publishers recognised in the 1960s that ‘dictionaries should be designed with a special set of users in mind’ (Householder 1967: 279) there were extremely few empirical user studies before the 1980s – Welker's most recent survey (2010) lists only six. The subsequent surge of interest in this field was fuelled by big changes to dictionary content and design in the 1980s and 1990s,…
A Classification of Genre Families in University Student Writing
As demand for English-medium higher education continues to grow internationally and participation in higher education increases, the need for a better understanding of academic writing is pressing. Prior university wide taxonomies of student writing have relied on intuition, the opinions of faculty, or data from course documentation and task prompts. In contrast, our classification is grounded in analysis of all 2858 BAWE (British Academic Writte…
Genres across the Disciplines: Student Writing in Higher Education
Genres across the Disciplines presents cutting edge, corpus-based research into student writing in higher education. Genres across the Disciplines is essential reading for those involved in syllabus and materials design for the development of writing in higher education, as well as for those investigating EAP. The book explores creativity and the use of metaphor as students work towards becoming experts in the genres of their discipline. Grounded…
The Effect of Menus and Signposting on the Speed and Accuracy of Sense Selection
A number of dictionaries include numbered ‘signposts’ in polysemous dictionary entries. These may be placed in a ‘menu’ at the top of the entry, or distributed as ‘shortcuts’ before each meaning. This study compares the effect of three versions of entries for MED2 ‘red’ words (i.e. those of particular usefulness to learners): with their original menus, without menus, and with the menu information dispersed within the entry. Participants selected …
Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures
This paper discusses some approaches to the categorisation of cohesive devices with reference to spoken academic discourse, multi-word units, and strings of frequently co-occurring words (lexical bundles). It goes on to investigate the cohesive role of lexical bundles in a corpus of 160 university lectures (120 from the BASE corpus and 40 from MICASE). Like the bundles from the T2K SWAL teaching subcorpus, investigated by Biber, Conrad and Cortes…
Language learning online: Towards best practice
A Study of Dictionary Use by International Students at a British University
This paper reports on an investigation into the dictionary-using habits of international students studying in the medium of English at a British University. Over a period of three years, six groups of students were set assignments requiring them to report on the way they had consulted dictionaries to find the meanings of unknown words in texts of their choice. Eighty-nine assignments were analysed, to reveal subjects' choices of reading material,…
Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning. Focus on Reading Comprehension
1CELTE, University of Warwick Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning. Focus on Reading Comprehension YukioTono Tübingen(Lexicographica. Series Maior 106.) Max Niemeyer Verlag 2001257
Academic writing programs
A User's Guide to Electronic Dictionaries for Language Learners
This paper describes how computer technology has affected the design and use of a range of dictionaries for language learners, from pocket bilingual dictionaries contained within a tiny electronic device, to multi-media interactive monolingual dictionaries on CD-ROM. It discusses the usefulness and success of the new search routes available to electronic dictionary users, and the educational potential of computer-based dictionaries in the languag…
Patterns of misinterpretation in the productive use
Patterns of misinterpretation in the productive use
A Study of Dictionary Use by International Students at a British University
This paper reports on an investigation into the dictionary-using habits of international students studying in the medium of English at a British University. Over a period of three years, six groups of students were set assignments requiring them to report on the way they had consulted dictionaries to find the meanings of unknown words in texts of their choice. Eighty-nine assignments were analysed, to reveal subjects' choices of reading material,…
A User's Guide to Electronic Dictionaries for Language Learners
This paper describes how computer technology has affected the design and use of a range of dictionaries for language learners, from pocket bilingual dictionaries contained within a tiny electronic device, to multi-media interactive monolingual dictionaries on CD-ROM. It discusses the usefulness and success of the new search routes available to electronic dictionary users, and the educational potential of computer-based dictionaries in the languag…
Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing
Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures
This paper discusses some approaches to the categorisation of cohesive devices with reference to spoken academic discourse, multi-word units, and strings of frequently co-occurring words (lexical bundles). It goes on to investigate the cohesive role of lexical bundles in a corpus of 160 university lectures (120 from the BASE corpus and 40 from MICASE). Like the bundles from the T2K SWAL teaching subcorpus, investigated by Biber, Conrad and Cortes…
The Effect of Menus and Signposting on the Speed and Accuracy of Sense Selection
A number of dictionaries include numbered ‘signposts’ in polysemous dictionary entries. These may be placed in a ‘menu’ at the top of the entry, or distributed as ‘shortcuts’ before each meaning. This study compares the effect of three versions of entries for MED2 ‘red’ words (i.e. those of particular usefulness to learners): with their original menus, without menus, and with the menu information dispersed within the entry. Participants selected …
The Image of the Monolingual Dictionary Across Europe. Results of the European Survey of Dictionary use and Culture
The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was delivered via an online survey platfo…
Academic writing programs
Language learning online: Towards best practice
Dictionary use by English language learners
Research into dictionary use does not have a long history. Although publishers recognised in the 1960s that ‘dictionaries should be designed with a special set of users in mind’ (Householder 1967: 279) there were extremely few empirical user studies before the 1980s – Welker's most recent survey (2010) lists only six. The subsequent surge of interest in this field was fuelled by big changes to dictionary content and design in the 1980s and 1990s,…
Patterns of misinterpretation in the productive use
A User's Guide to Electronic Dictionaries for Language Learners
This paper describes how computer technology has affected the design and use of a range of dictionaries for language learners, from pocket bilingual dictionaries contained within a tiny electronic device, to multi-media interactive monolingual dictionaries on CD-ROM. It discusses the usefulness and success of the new search routes available to electronic dictionary users, and the educational potential of computer-based dictionaries in the languag…
A Study of Dictionary Use by International Students at a British University
This paper reports on an investigation into the dictionary-using habits of international students studying in the medium of English at a British University. Over a period of three years, six groups of students were set assignments requiring them to report on the way they had consulted dictionaries to find the meanings of unknown words in texts of their choice. Eighty-nine assignments were analysed, to reveal subjects' choices of reading material,…
Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning. Focus on Reading Comprehension
1CELTE, University of Warwick Research on Dictionary Use in the Context of Foreign Language Learning. Focus on Reading Comprehension YukioTono Tübingen(Lexicographica. Series Maior 106.) Max Niemeyer Verlag 2001257
Academic writing programs
Language learning online: Towards best practice
Lexical bundles and discourse signalling in academic lectures
This paper discusses some approaches to the categorisation of cohesive devices with reference to spoken academic discourse, multi-word units, and strings of frequently co-occurring words (lexical bundles). It goes on to investigate the cohesive role of lexical bundles in a corpus of 160 university lectures (120 from the BASE corpus and 40 from MICASE). Like the bundles from the T2K SWAL teaching subcorpus, investigated by Biber, Conrad and Cortes…
The Effect of Menus and Signposting on the Speed and Accuracy of Sense Selection
A number of dictionaries include numbered ‘signposts’ in polysemous dictionary entries. These may be placed in a ‘menu’ at the top of the entry, or distributed as ‘shortcuts’ before each meaning. This study compares the effect of three versions of entries for MED2 ‘red’ words (i.e. those of particular usefulness to learners): with their original menus, without menus, and with the menu information dispersed within the entry. Participants selected …
Genres across the Disciplines: Student Writing in Higher Education
Genres across the Disciplines presents cutting edge, corpus-based research into student writing in higher education. Genres across the Disciplines is essential reading for those involved in syllabus and materials design for the development of writing in higher education, as well as for those investigating EAP. The book explores creativity and the use of metaphor as students work towards becoming experts in the genres of their discipline. Grounded…
A Classification of Genre Families in University Student Writing
As demand for English-medium higher education continues to grow internationally and participation in higher education increases, the need for a better understanding of academic writing is pressing. Prior university wide taxonomies of student writing have relied on intuition, the opinions of faculty, or data from course documentation and task prompts. In contrast, our classification is grounded in analysis of all 2858 BAWE (British Academic Writte…
Korean and English ‘dictionary’ questions
This paper proposes an alternative to questionnaire surveys and other methods of investigating dictionary user expectations, wants and needs: the content analysis of dictionary-related queries on online general-purpose Q&A sites. Web postings are anonymous and are not associated with any particular institution or dictionary developer, so they tend to reflect the ordinary concerns of users looking for unbiased practical answers in authentic contex…
Dictionary use by English language learners
Research into dictionary use does not have a long history. Although publishers recognised in the 1960s that ‘dictionaries should be designed with a special set of users in mind’ (Householder 1967: 279) there were extremely few empirical user studies before the 1980s – Welker's most recent survey (2010) lists only six. The subsequent surge of interest in this field was fuelled by big changes to dictionary content and design in the 1980s and 1990s,…
An analysis of the evaluation contexts in academic discourse
This paper develops a new framework to examine the use of ‘evaluation resources’ in research discourse. In previous studies of evaluative resources, two distinct, although interwoven, types of context have been identified: 1) the real world where evaluation resources are used to describe situations, and 2) the research world studying the real world, where they are used to engage readers and open up debate. In this paper, we will propose three con…
The Adaptation of Chinese Split-Site Business Students to British Classrooms: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Image of the Monolingual Dictionary Across Europe. Results of the European Survey of Dictionary use and Culture
The article presents the results of a survey on dictionary use in Europe, focusing on general monolingual dictionaries. The survey is the broadest survey of dictionary use to date, covering close to 10,000 dictionary users (and non-users) in nearly thirty countries. Our survey covers varied user groups, going beyond the students and translators who have tended to dominate such studies thus far. The survey was delivered via an online survey platfo…
The Bawe Quicklinks Project: A New DDL Resource for University Students
This paper outlines a new initiative aimed at integrating concordances and other corpus outputs into written feedback for learners of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). Although data-driven learning has by now a 30-year history, it has yet to have a great impact on mainstream pedagogy despite various claims regarding its efficacy and its benefits in terms of promoting learner autonomy. This situation may be due to technical barriers to the use …
Discipline, Level, Genre: Integrating Situational Perspectives in a New MD Analysis of University Student Writing
While there have been many investigations of academic genres, and of the linguistic features of academic discourse, few studies have explored how these interact across a range of university student writing situations. To counter misconceptions that have arisen regarding student writing, this article aims to provide comprehensive linguistic descriptions of a wide range of university assignment genres in relation to multiple situational variables. …
Evaluation in research article introductions: A comparison of the strategies used by Chinese and British authors
This article investigates differences in evaluative style in introductions to research articles written by scholars from China and Britain. A corpus of 30 research article introductions in applied linguistics was analysed in terms of Appraisal Theory and genre analysis, using the UAM Corpus Tool. Findings from this analysis suggest that both the Chinese and the British authors were aware of the need to argue for their own opinions and maintain go…
Stories and scenarios: Lecturers’ use of fantastic hypothetical events
Warning Notes in a Learner’s Dictionary: A Study of the Effectiveness of Different Formats
This study used an online correction task to explore the extent to which different types of warning notes in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online were heeded when users tried to correct errors in the use of L2 target words. The task was completed by 332 participants, yielding 1,819 answers produced after clicking on links to relevant entries. Warning notes were categorised in terms of their formatting features, but there were found t…
Sources for courses: Metadiscourse and the role of citation in student writing
Dictionary Use
Dictionaries are tools which people use to access information about words.
Computer Science (20 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (10 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (9 works) · Mathematics education (8 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 works)