User-Friendliness of Verb Syntax in Pedagogical Dictionaries of English

The study examines the user-friendliness of sources of verb syntax in pedagogical dictionaries of English. It relies mainly on the results of an experiment, where the user-friendliness was measured by the frequency with which the properly identified and useful syntactic information was located in entries compiled for the purpose of the research. 606 subjects, divided into two groups of different proficiency in English, underlined there the information helpful in answering multiple choice questions. The study ends with the recommendation of the most user-friendly solutions.