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Best-selling Oxford Afrikaans-English Bilingual School Dictionary now even bigger and better!

by Oxford University Press | Sep 6, 2017 | Dictionaries

Exciting news for South African learners, parents and teachers is that Oxford University Press South Africa is poised to publish the eagerly awaited second edition of its hugely successful Afrikaans-Engels English-Afrikaans Skoolwoordeboek School Dictionary. In...

How often should I buy my child a dictionary?

by Oxford University Press | Nov 23, 2015 | Dictionaries

How often does my child need a new dictionary? Though much depends on your child and his/her language level, including whether your child is a home-language or additional-language speaker, one can usually follow the phase guidelines in our school system: Foundation,...

New bilingual isiXhosa school dictionary includes 433 key curriculum words

by Oxford University Press | Sep 26, 2014 | Dictionaries, Schools News, Dictionary News

Most children in South Africa learn their school subjects in a language that is not their home language. This puts a barrier between the child and the subject he’s studying, and also makes the teacher’s job harder, as she tries to help children understand...

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