Antimoon is very big on using a dictionary, especially a monolingual one. Others, like Krashen, claim that concentrating on form is not productive; one picks up words in context through extensive reading and listening.
I would like to hear from successful language learners on their dictionary use. Do you bother with the dictionary at all? If so, do you stop at some (or all) unknown words while reading--or mark them and look them up later? Do you write them down (or add to a program like SuperMemo) for review--or just keep looking them up until learned? And do you favor a monolingual dictionary (trying to "think in the language")--or use a bilingual dictionary for quicker understanding?
I would like to hear from successful language learners on their dictionary use. Do you bother with the dictionary at all? If so, do you stop at some (or all) unknown words while reading--or mark them and look them up later? Do you write them down (or add to a program like SuperMemo) for review--or just keep looking them up until learned? And do you favor a monolingual dictionary (trying to "think in the language")--or use a bilingual dictionary for quicker understanding?