Dictionaries as a teaching resource

Ideas for making the dictionary a primary source of interaction.

Business English dictionaries: do we need them?

How specialist English dictionaries can be helpful for both teachers and students.

Dictionary activities: Expanding vocabulary

Ways a dictionary can be used to increase students' vocabulary.

Using Corpora for EAP Writing Development

29 April 2016

Maggie Charles has taught English for Academic Purposes for more than thirty years and was consultant and contributor to the Writing Tutor in the...

Changing classrooms for the better – the Hornby Scholarship

31 March 2016

Vuyokazi Yolanda Makubalo has been involved with the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL) in South Africa for 20 years. In 2015, she was...

The art of juggling: developing the language learner’s vocabulary

14 January 2016

Diana Lea taught English in Czechoslovakia and Poland before joining Oxford University Press as a dictionary editor in 1994.  She is the editor of...