The Advanced Learner's Dictionary new edition is more user-friendly than ever.
The clear definitions and prominent guidewords help you to find the meaning that you want quickly and easily, and even more pictures and illustrations help highlight variations in meaning that are essential for the advanced student't progression.
The Book:
NEW! 'Extra help' section includes full-page illustrations and photos, maps and the innovative'Talk' section, focusing on conversation, and how people really speak in day-to-day situations.
NEW! Even more Learner Error notes taken from the Cambridge Learner Corpus – based on real student errors from Cambridge ESOL papers – help you to avoid common mistakes.
NEW! Thesaurus panels provide alternatives to over-used words, helping you to widen your vocabulary and help make your English sound more natural.
NEW! 'Word partner' boxes show you how to use words in the most natural and fluent way.
The CD-ROM:
Interactive exercises including exam practice and real past papers for IELTS, FCE, CAE, CPE and BEC.
Extra collocation information and thousands of example sentences.
UNIQUE! Cambridge SMART thesaurus turns the dictionary into a thesaurus at the click of a button.
QUICKfind, a mini pop-up version of the dictionary, gives you instant definitions when surfing the web or reading on screen.
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Aiming to help students acquire the large and accurate vocabulary for academic studies, this book presents a variety of contextualized communicative activities that expand active and passive vacabulary through intensive practice. A flexible format is provided to enable curriculum design, and it focuses on productive words with multiple forms and meanings rather than on technical words and idioms.
Lexis: Academic Vocabulary Study reflects current theories of language learning, particularly those that stress learning by doing, content-based learning, and semantics as keys to communicative competence. Quality eadings that begin each chapter offer engaging information on topics of current interest. Students can practice all four language skills—reading, writing, listening, and speaking—in subsequent activities. Providing a flexible format for any vocabulary study curriculum, the book features in each chapter:
• establishing a context
• understanding words
• putting words into sentences
• using words in context
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Who is this dictionary for?
This dictionary is intended for:
• students taking undergraduate or graduate courses in language teaching or applied linguistics, particularly those planning to take up a career in the teaching of English as a Second or Foreign Language or in foreign language teaching
• language teachers doing in-service or pre-service courses, such as the UCLES Diploma in Teaching English to Adults
• students doing introductory courses in linguistics and related areas
• teachers and others interested in the practical applications of language study
Why this dictionary?
Language teaching and applied linguistics are fields which have their own core subject matter and which also draw on a number of complementary fields of study. Among the core subject matter disciplines are second language acquisition, methodology, testing, and syllabus design. The complementary fields of study include both the language based disciplines such as linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics, as well as the education based disciplines such as curriculum development, teacher education, and evaluation. The result is that students taking courses in language teaching and applied linguistics encounter a large number of specialized terms which frequently occur in articles, books and lectures.
This dictionary attempts to clarify the meanings and uses of these terms.
The scope of the dictionary
The dictionary was written for those with little or no background in language teaching or applied linguistics.
We have given special attention to English, and the majority of the examples in the dictionary are from English, but the dictionary will also be helpful to those interested in other languages. Although the dictionary is not intended primarily for those who already have a specialized training in language teaching or applied linguistics, it will serve as a reference book in areas with which they are less familiar.
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Vocabilis is an advanced flash-card vocabulary builder for Windows with unique features. Its principle task is to help you as a language learner to build a strong vocabulary in the language(s) you are studying.
Vocabilis's main feature which makes it stand out among the many other similar programs is its innovative stage-by-stage words learning scheme that makes the program a highly efficient tool enabling the user to easily memorize large amounts of foreign words, expressions and phrases.
What is the stage-by-stage learning scheme?
Unlike most vocabulary-training programs Vocabilis organizes vocabulary training on a three-stage principle. Every vocabulary item passes all the three stages. The first stage is called Learning, the second one is First Repetition and the third one is Second Repetition.
This scheme is particularly useful for learning large word lists (at least 100 items).
The learner can choose between two preset settings : Drilling and Brushing Up or set all configurable options him/herself. For example, the user can separately set the number of words the program will be choosing from to show him/her at every stage. Thus, a large word list is divided by the program into small easily memorizable portions.
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