Abstract:
This paper will explore problematic areas of Online Hindi Learner’s Dictionaries, which have
been launched to assist online Hindi learners through advanced means and ways. Since the
teacher is not always an option or a well-chosen dictionary, the dictionary has been played a
vital role in language learning and teaching for decades. As we are engaging in the process of
language learning and teaching with plenty of complex necessities, it is difficult to carry
traditional paper dictionaries with us all the time. Thus electronic dictionaries, unlike traditional
papers, have been opened-up interesting and advanced methodologies with regard to vocabulary
acquisition. Online Hindi Learner’s Dictionaries present distinct ways as well as developed new
ways of defining words and providing introduction of words and phrases. Most of students, who
learn Hindi as a foreign language, often have difficulties in finding the correct meaning for
unfamiliar words or phrases in their dictionaries. So an effective Hindi Online Learner’s
Dictionary should be included these characteristics - to make it easier for learners to identify
and recognize the words' meanings; the language described is the usual, everyday variety
preference is given to the quality of the treatment of words rather than to the quantity of words
particular care is taken in the treatment of the more frequent words; the provision of information
on the Grammar of words; the learner's dictionary should supply information about the contexts
and environments in which words tend to appear most regularly. They give an account of what
is typical, rather than describing what is simply possible; pronunciation is indicated by means
of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet); Pictorial representation of words; Culture and
domain-specific words, inflected forms and discourse markers; requires knowledge of the
conventional contexts and collocations surrounding a word. This paper makes an attempt to
point-out the importance of using an Online Hindi learner’s Dictionaries for foreign students.
Moreover, it will also give a possible idea about developing an ideal model of Online Hindi
Learner’s Dictionary.
