Wörterbuchkritik und Wörterbuchbenutzungsforschung : Wie benutzerfreundlich ist die Registrierung von Kollokationen in ein- und zweisprachigen (Deutsch-Italienisch) Wörterbüchern?

The presentation deals with the relation between dictionary use research and dictionary critique. It focusses more specifically on the use of dictionaries by Italian-speaking learners of German and presents a survey and two tests. With the survey the behavior, the needs and the expectations of learners of German as dictionary users are being examined, whereas the tests focus on their actions and competences with the use of dictionaries. The tests consist of the translation of sentences with collocations and so-called “Funktionsverbgefügen” into German (test 1) and Italian (test 2). These tests allow to show the strengths and weaknesses of monolingual and bilingual (German-Italian) dictionaries in the field of collocations and “Funktionsverbgefügen”.