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Outer Access Structure vs. Learner Level
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The horizontal axis of the graph represents the learners' levels and the vertical 
axis the three groups of outer access structures. The graph shows a decline in 
the number and type of outer structures in relation to the level of user. At 
beginner's level, the user needs as much help as possible to facilitate the outer 
search route. 
There is no distinction between learner's dictionaries with a function of 
production in the foreign language and reception of the foreign language, be-
cause it would not influence the outer access structure directly. A learner's dic-
tionary designed for the purpose of reception might have a larger macrostruc-
ture with more lemmata than one for production. On this graph the lines indi-
cating production and reception therefore fall together. 
In the case of the inner access structure of learner's dictionaries, the dis-
tinction between dictionaries for production and reception does have an influ-

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ence on the number of inner access structures. The three categories of inner 
access structures are the following. The first contains implicit inner access 
structures being the data distribution structure and the order of the data types. 
The second category comprises explicit compulsory access structures, including 
data-architecture and micro-architecture. The third contains explicit optional 
rapid access structures, inner texts and data exposure structures.