Compilation of the Vietnamese Dictionary for Primary School Students - Some arised issues

Abstract

The article presents some problems arising in the practice of compiling the  Vietnamese Dictionary for Primary School Students and the solutions to them, including how to build list of entries, note parts of speech, deal with conversion words/homophones of the same root, and how to provide examples. The  dictionary’s list of entries is built from the elementary school textbooks. For noting parts of speech, the dictionary applies the way of delimiting the parts of speech of the textbook compilers, noting the parts of speech learned in the primary and junior high school programs. Regarding the homophones of the same root, the dictionary treats them by separating them into separate entries so that the notation of parts of speech is clear, thereby the dictionary usage orientation is clearer. The examples in the dictionary are provided on the basis of children’s literature works and primary school textbooks, so they are relatively close and suitable for children’s psychology.