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– provide over 4,000 notes to enable students to distinguish between very close synonyms, choose the best word for the context, and use it correctly; and
– include over 2,000 opposites.

The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus also includes:
– 16 study pages, focusing on specific topics with exam-style exercises;
– 8-page trainer on making the best use of the Thesaurus; and
– a CD-ROM of the complete Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus A-Z pages and indexes, and over 200 practice exercises.

Enlarge your vocabulary
• NEW Click on the thesaurus button next to every word to access a list of synonyms.
• Understand difficult words with over 1300 illustrations, animations and photographs, and more than 300 sound effects.
• Create your own wordlists to revise, improve and extend your vocabulary.
• Explore the Language Study pages to develop your vocabulary in particular areas of English, and discover the world with 200 interactive maps in the atlas.

Improve your pronunciation
• Hear the pronunciation of every word in British and American English at the click of a button
• Record, play back and improve your pronunciation, and search for other words that are pronounced in the same way

Personalize your search
• NEW Display only as much information about each word as you want, and add your own notes or translations to every entry in the dictionary
• Use the Super Search to look for groups of words that are of particular interest to you.

Exploit your dictionary
• NEW Over 200 interactive exercises to improve your writing skills
• NEW Connect instantly through weblinks to carefully selected websites offering cultural and encyclopedic information
• Quick Find gives you instant dictionary definitions of words and phrases in documents, email or web pages. Just hover your mouse over the word you want to see.

The MED CD-ROM is Windows Vista compatible.

Dictionary
Written specially for students of American English, the dictionary contains almost 80,000 words and phrases, and covers all you need to know about American language and culture. Over 50,000 of these words give a real-life pronunciation, and there is a facility which allows you to record your own voice; so you can listen to the pronunciation given, record your own version, then see how it compares with the original.

Common Errors section
The Common Errors section will help you avoid common mistakes which many learners of English make. You can use it to help you with your homework, or to find out more about a word or phrase. Every entry in this section shows two examples of the word in use - one using it correctly, and one using it incorrectly.

The Grammar Book
You can use the Grammar Book to help you study new language areas, or review and practise language. Some sections within the Grammar Book have short, full colour animations attached to them, which are a fun way of consolidating your knowledge of certain grammar points.

Videos
There are 10 videos on the "Longman Interactive American Dictionary", each illustrating grammar and use in true-to-life situations. You can use the videos to extend your vocabulary, practise your listening comprehension and improve your written English. Each video has a script which scrolls down automatically as it plays, so you can follow the words as you hear them.

Exercises
To help you get the maximum from the "Longman Interactive American Dictionary", we have included over 500 specially written exercises concentrating on each of the main sections.

There are exercises to:
- see how well you have understood the dictionary entries
- test your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar
- give you practice in using words from the Common Errors section correctly
- help you get the most out of the pictures
- help you get the most out of the videos

Verbs
This section contains conjugations of all the verbs in the dictionary for all 'persons', and the most common tenses in both simple and progressive forms. You can use it to help you check your spelling and increase your grammatical accuracy.

Pictures
In this section, there are many attractive photographs and drawings to help you learn and remember new words. Each picture has the word being illustrated at the top, and some also have short descriptions of what is in the picture.

So, there's plenty on the "Longman Interactive American Dictionary" to keep you occupied and help you to learn English. But, because this dictionary is on CD-ROM, it's fun to use and will keep you amused even while you're learning! Also, if you've got a multimedia computer, you can use the Longman Interactive American Dictionary at home as well as in the classroom.

System Requirements
PC Minimum Specification:
• 486 IBM-compatible personal computer
• 8 MB RAM
• At least 10 MB free space on hard drive
• Double-speed or faster CD-ROM drive
• Soundblaster-compatible audio card and loudspeakers
• Windows 3.1 or later

Mac Minimum Specification:
• 68040 or greater processor
• Apple System Software version 7.0 or later
• 8 MB RAM
• Double-speed or faster CD-ROM drive and external speakers

It provided guidance toward accuracy, precision, and grace in the use of English that intelligent people need and seek in a dictionary. It traced, whenever possible, the development of English words to their origins and keyed many to an Appendix of Indo-European Roots. And it presented complex lexical data in a typographically attractive design accented by thousands of photographs and line drawings in spa cious margins.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edi tion, builds upon this distinguished, innovative foundation. The pages of the Third Edition, a lexicon of more than 200,000 boldface forms, hundreds of thousands of meanings, and nearly 4,000 pieces of art, reflect the rich and varied texture of American English as it has been use over time by a broad group of educated speakers.

This Dictionary is the product of four years of work by 175 contributors. In preparing the Dictionary, our editors have had access to a database containing hundreds of millions of lines of text that could be searched for any word in context.

• teaching methods and approaches in language teaching
• curriculum development and syllabus design
• second language acquisition
• the teaching of listening, speaking, reading and writing
• computer assisted language learning
• teacher education in language teaching
• English grammar and pronunciation
• language testing, research methods, and basic statistics

The dictionary also includes terms from the field of applied linguistics. For the purposes of this book, “applied linguistics” refers to the practical applications of linguistics and language theory and includes terms from the following areas of study:
• introductory linguistics, including phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics and morphology
• discourse analysis
• sociolinguistics, including the sociology of language and communicative competence
• psycholinguistics, including learning theories

Topics range from history to current issues, from leading figures and movements to legislation and Supreme Court cases, from administration to adolescence. About 50 new articles deal with distance learning and other emerging trends. Approximately 500 articles have been updated. Some statistics were revised (although the number of California State University campuses was not updated). Library has some very current information, while Children's literature is severely out of date.

Entries range in length from a couple of sentences to several pages. Length does not necessarily correlate with current importance; for instance, Missionary education movements is longer than Minority education, and Military education is longer than Migrant education. The humanities are covered more extensively than the sciences. Individual colleges and historical aspects of education outweigh research and reform (e.g., there is no index listing for statistics, and ethnography is missing entirely). Literacies are under-represented; computer literacy is included but media, visual, and information literacies are excluded. There is no mention of young adult literature, which continues to be a controversial and important topic. Except for those appended to new entries, lists of references contain few current titles.

Several appendixes follow the entries: a sketchy chronology of significant educational benchmarks (none for the 1980s), a list of significant U. S. Supreme Court decisions in education, a list of education majors and degrees, and a topical bibliography of generally older resources.

Despite some gaps this set covers much ground and is useful for many libraries, but should not be considered the definitive source or the only purchase in this area. Given the limited amount of updating, libraries may choose not to replace the previous edition.

Arranged alphabetically for ease of use, the entries deal with those errors that regularly appear in the written English of learners at the intermediate level of proficiency and above. Each error is accompanied by a correction and a short, simple explanation.

The Cambridge Grammar of English has also won a prestigious British Council Innovation Award.

Described by the judges as 'User-friendly and practical... a highly effective resource for English language teachers and learners alike', the Cambridge Grammar of English was praised for the way it uniquely documents current spoken as well as written grammar usage and for its innovative accompanying CD-ROM.

About CD-ROM
The accompanying CD-ROM makes the Cambridge Grammar of English even more accessible with:
• the whole book in handy, searchable format;
• audio recordings of all example sentences from the book;
• links to the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary online for instant definitions of new vocabulary

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- That means you must use the program with CD-ROM at all times or
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