Considering a Socio-cognitive Approach in the Compiling of a Linguistics Dictionary

The paper presents research into multilingual students' needs that may as well determine the design of a linguistics dictionary. The underlying research question is what degree of linguistic awareness of the linguistics metalanguage resides in the minds of future EFL professionals. The data are interpreted through the notion of interlingual equivalence. The respondents of an experimental questionnaire are Slovak freshmen majoring in EFL. The results suggest a hybrid approach (bilingual and encyclopedic) to presenting linguistics terminology so that multicompetence is promoted as a system in its own right, rather than the exact equivalent of either monolingual system.