Dictionary making and quality education

Abstract

Dictionaries have played a defined role in assisting educational processes in specialist fields. Their didactic functions may include those of summarizing accumulated knowledge, assistance in knowledge organization and control over newly formed information. The article focuses on educational aspects that term specialists and lexicographers either take into account or may want to consider when creating dictionaries dedicated to specialist communities. The dictionary maker may program didactic functions in each of the creation stages: conceptual, semantic, and aesthetic. Novelties may come from linguistics and from related disciplines. When considering didactic functions throughout the dictionary making process, specialist lexicographers may create much more effective language instruments. These tools may facilitate field communication while answering educational needs in specialist communities.