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Education strategies for English studies Dictionaries

The objective of our study of dictionaries is to bring focus to storytelling skills as a form of communication, and English grammar and linguistics as a strategy for education.

Sources and references of dictionaries

Dictionary.com

“Word of the day”

The Britannica Dictionary

“Find definitions and meanings of words.”

Dictionary by Merriam-Webster

“America’s most-trusted online dictionary”

The Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2 ed.)

“[A] unique reference book for all Canadians”

Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)

“The foremost single volume authority on the English language”

The GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE)

“[A] free dictionary derived from Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary”

WordNet®

“[A] large lexical database of English”

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

“Contemporary English” (a good reference for noun saliency, i.e., countable vs. uncountable)

Dictionary tools on iTools

“Look up any word in Dictionary.com’s meta dictionary”

Antonyms dictionary

Find the antonyms for a particular word

Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries

“Find definitions, translations, and grammar explanations” (a good reference for noun saliency and verb transitivity)

American Heritage Dictionary

“[A] record of English vocabulary as it is used by a broad and diverse group of educated speakers and writers.”
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Garie McIntosh
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