- Do you use a dictionary?
- Do you use a monolingual or bilingual dictionary, or both?
- In which setting do you use your dictionary? (i.e. while reading, in the classroom etc.)
- Do you look at all of the meanings of the word, the collocations etc. or do you just look at the first plausible meaning?
- Do you use the phonological information?
- If you use the phonological information, do you speak aloud and practice the pronunciation?
- Do you look at the contextual usage that the dictionary provides (if it indeed provides it)?
- How often do you use your dictionary?
- Do you keep notes of the information you retrieve from the dictionary?
- Do you ever just peruse the dictionary?
- Do you sometimes let yourself make connections to other words, phrases etc. by information found in the dictionary?
- Do you use any of the information found at the beginning and the end of the dictionary? (i.e. grammar reference materials, measurements etc.)
- If you have both a monolingual and bilingual dictionary, which do you prefer to use and in which situations?
- Do you think that you should look up every word that you don't know while reading?
- Can you understand the abbreviations and what the mean? Do they help your understanding?