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4. The Dictionary.full ( 1)

The study explored the use of the dictionary in teaching L2 writing to improve quality as measured by the incidence of errors. The research design was a simple pre-/post-test experimental design without a control group. A sample of 50 students randomly selected were pre-tested and treated for 12 weeks in the use of the dictionary for writing. Fourteen writing activities in letter, essay, and speech writing were used for the study. At the end of the treatment, the students were post-tested by replicating the pre-test. The result showed that the incidence of errors in the post-test dropped by 83 per cent demonstrating that the use of the dictionary in L2 writing improves quality in writing as measured by the incidence of grammatical errors.

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