Are they still making them? Dictionaries in a digital world
When I say I make dictionaries for Oxford University Press, people used to say, “Remind me not to play scrabble against you!” Now they say, “Are you still making dictionaries? I just use Google.” It’s true that a number of dictionary...Môre! Hoe gaan dit?
When you’re learning a language, you may feel reluctant to try out the new vocabulary and grammar by speaking. Perhaps you’re afraid of pronouncing a word wrongly and feeling silly. Children learning languages at school can feel the same. Teachers and parents know...Subject versus general dictionaries – is it an either/or
So you’ve bought your child age-appropriate dictionaries at various stages of his school career, supported his additional-language acquisition with bilingual dictionaries (as opposed to monolinguals), and even invested in a thesaurus. Your child writes beautiful...The real value of dictionaries
“Of all the knowledge and skills which a language learner must master, the most important element, and the one involving the heaviest learning load, is an adequate working vocabulary.” – Foreword to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 8th edition, 2010...
Bigger, better, brighter
and more beautiful than ever before!
Brand new editions of our popular CAPS-linked bilingual dictionaries for South African learners in Grade R to 4
360° teaching at your fingertips
The all-in-one teacher’s toolbox
