Abstract
Review of Jonathan Crowther (Editor), Kathryn Kavanagh (Assistant Editor) and Michael Ashby (Phonetics Editor). Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English.
Highlights
Learner's dictionaries of English are mushrooming nowadays
What does the New International Students' Edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ( OALD) offer, apart from the very reasonable price, to make the potential buyer decide in favour of this specific dictionary? On the outer back page, ~ive innovations are listed, of whi~ two fe~ture in the pr:face written by the edItor
They are the use of the Bntish National Corpus, a massive and carefully balanced computer databank of modem written and spoken English" and the introduction of a 3 500 word vocabulary used for the writing of the definientia
Summary
Learner's dictionaries of English are mushrooming nowadays. What does the New International Students' Edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ( OALD) offer, apart from the very reasonable price, to make the potential buyer decide in favour of this specific dictionary? On the outer back page, ~ive innovations are listed, of whi~ two fe~ture in the pr:face written by the edItor. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, 5th edition· (New International Students' Edition)
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