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In my final article in this series, I will share how to use the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary to its fullest potential. First, I will introduce some methods for using OALD with intermedi...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2023/07/24/getting-the-most-out-of-oxford-advanced-learners-dictionary/

Dictionaries were once thought of only as a printed reference work. However, from around 1990, English dictionaries for learners became available on portable electronic devices, CD/DVD-ROMs, and ...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2022/12/15/oald-the-impact-of-digitalization-on-information-presentation/

In 2020, the 10th edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, or OALD, was published. The origin of this dictionary can be traced back to the Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2022/09/13/oxford-advanced-learners-dictionary-now-and-then/

The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (OALD) was first published in 1948. Since then, over 100 million English language learners have used OALD to develop their English skills for work and s...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2020/08/24/oald-story/

Mark Hancock, co-author of the English Result series introduces his forthcoming IATEFL talk on the keys to developing students’ use of dictionaries and important features that can support in...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2015/04/09/iatefl-pronunciation-to-go-learning-to-learn-from-the-dictionary/

The names of animals are probably among the first things learned by a student of a language, yet knowing the names of animals doesn’t always help when it comes to their associated adjectives—...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2014/07/28/animal-talk-animal-related-adjectives-in-the-english-language/

Ian Brookes is a freelance writer and editor based in Scotland. He has edited a number of dictionaries and has written books about spelling, writing, and punctuation. In this post, he looks at th...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2014/06/16/all-at-sea-nautical-metaphors-in-the-english-language/

Ian Brookes is a freelance writer and editor based in Scotland. He has edited a number of dictionaries and has written books about spelling, writing, and punctuation. In this post he takes a look...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2014/05/27/the-trail-of-the-magpie-how-foreign-words-create-exceptions-to-the-rules/

Ian Brookes is a freelance writer and editor based in Scotland. He has edited a number of dictionaries and has written books about spelling, writing, and punctuation. In this post, he looks at th...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2014/03/04/the-sounds-of-silence/

Judith Willis worked as Publishing Manager for bilingual dictionaries in the ELT dictionaries department at Oxford University Press before retiring in 2008. Here she looks back at how the meaning...

https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2014/01/30/same-words-new-meanings-whats-really-changed-in-the-last-65-years/