A Study On The Construction Of A Chinese Learner's Dictionary

English learner's dictionaries are now worldwide in their diffusion, and represent a coming-together of intellectual, technological and commercial forces scarcely equaled in present-day lexicography. This paper traces the development of English learner's dictionaries from their origins in the vocabulary-control movement in the 1920s and 1930s to the appearance of the large-scale, computerized compilations of the latest time. English learner's dictionary has gone through rapid development during the past century, while in China there is still a long way to go for the development of Chinese learner's dictionary. This paper will explore the issues concerning the construction of Chinese learner's dictionary and try to start further discussion on this issue in future. Generally speaking, the structure of this thesis is a process of spotting problems and providing solutions.The first chapter analyzes the errors made by Chinese language learners and goes through the present Chinese learner's dictionaries. In this way, it finds that there is much space for the improvement of present Chinese learner's dictionary.The second chapter is devoted to the development of English learner's dictionaries. Rich experience has been accumulated in the process. User perspective becomes more and more important in lexicography. Since early 1970s, computer has come to play an indispensable role in dictionary making of all kinds, while computerized resources have continued to grow in size and complexity. Learners'dictionaries have benefited much from the research into linguistics. Much is worth learning for Chinese learner's dictionary.The third chapter tries to utilize linguistic knowledge in the study into dictionary structure. After pointing out the shortcomings of traditional way of entry selection and arrangement and studying into mental lexicon and vocabulary learning strategies of the learners, the author tries to make it up by the utilization of Semantic Field theory. The emergency of corpus linguistics as an applied discipline in lexicography can be traced back to 1980s. Corpus is of great value in providing important evidence for the lexicographer. In this part, after having an overall view of the status quo of Chinese-English bilingual corpus, the author tries to explore the value of corpus in mediostructure and microstructure of the dictionary and figure out the space for future development.The last chapter concludes the thesis by stressing the importance of Chinese-English learner's dictionary, especially the bilingualized one. It is hoped that the present thesis can provide a new perspective in the compilation of Chinese learner's dictionary.