Have electronic corpora made dictionaries obsolete? Some encouraging results from an international teaching experiment in the field of French artistic vocabulary

We present an international pedagogical experiment carried out as a part of a Lexicography and Corpus Linguistics course whose aim is to test the use of dictionaries and corpora for decoding and translating French texts of varying degrees of specialization within the domain of Fine Arts. This paper focuses on the observation of a sample of terms and multi-word expressions in three main French language dictionaries and in three monolingual corpora. The purpose of our experiment is to assess whether consulting print and online dictionaries is still of any benefit for Generation Z foreign language students due to the spread of open access corpora.