Hansford 1991

Hansford 1991

Reference
	Hansford, Gillian F. 1991. "Will Kofi understand the white woman's dictionary? Some ways to make a bilingual dictionary more usable to a new literate." Notes on Linguistics. Interest level: lay specialist.

Summary
	In newly literate societies, a bilingual dictionary is very valuable since it standardizes spelling and encourages new readers and writers. However, a dictionary must be carefully laid out with the new literate in mind to make it useful. Carefully consider
	alphabetization method of handling prefixes word exclusion grammatical categories and tone, and glosses.
	These aspects of a dictionary must be available to create a user-friendly resource.

Context for this page:

Bibliography module: Hansford 1991
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): H
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

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