Linguistic and cultural strategies in ELT dictionaries.
There are three main types of ELT dictionaries: monolingual, bilingual, and bilingualized. Each type of dictionary, while having its own advantages, also hinders the learning of English as a foreign language and culture in so far as it is written from a homogenizing (linguistic- and culture-centric)...
| Published in: | ELT Journal: English Language Teaching Journal Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 135 - 143 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2010
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