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Thedictionary is currently in its sixth edition. The premium website was revised in 2014 and 2015. It now offers over a million corpus examples (exceeding the paper version's), and includes sound files for every word, 88,000 example sentences, and various tools for study, teaching, examinations and grammar. The 9000 Most Important English Words to Learn have been highlighted via the Longman Communication 9000.

A key feature of the LDOCE is its utilization of the Longman Defining Vocabulary, a 2000-word controlled defining vocabulary used to write all of the definitions in the dictionary.[2] This defining vocabulary was developed from Michael West's General Service List of high-frequency words and their most common meanings.[3]

The controlled defining vocabulary is not only helpful to second-language learners, but has also facilitated the use of the LDOCE as a machine-readable dictionary in computational linguistics research.[4]

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (6th edition) for advanced learners (LDOCE6), published by Pearson Education 2014, is the latest edition of this reputable dictionary for foreign learners of English. To increase its competitiveness, LDOCE6 includes new features like the Longman Communication 9000 to provide users with assistance on vocabulary acquisition, and the Grammar Guide to give information on major grammar topics and grammar notes that illustrate common grammar mistakes made by learners. This review examines whether the dictionary satisfies the needs and expectations of the users (in this case, advanced level EFL students); and if it rightly pitches at the level of their English proficiency and reference skills for ease of use and acquiring linguistic knowledge.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (6th edition) for advanced learners (LDOCE6), published by Pearson Education 2014, is the latest edition of this reputable dictionary for foreign learners of English. Its appearance is lauded by supporters of print dictionaries who have been witnessing the dwindling options for print with the growing domination of electronic media in all aspects of life.

Although the various editions of the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English are praised by users for innovation and quality of work over the years, LDOCE6 print now faces a generation of potential users that is bombarded with many choices, many of whom are very electronic savvy and are accustomed to receiving free services and information from cyberspace. To increase its competitiveness, LDOCE6 includes new features like the Longman Communication 9000 to provide users with assistance on vocabulary acquisition, and the Grammar Guide to give information on major grammar topics and grammar notes that illustrate common grammar mistakes made by learners. LDOCE6 also offers users free access to its website with more information on words, vocabulary practice exercises, videos and tests.

The dictionary will be examined on whether it satisfies the needs and expectations of the users (in this case, advanced level EFL students); and if it rightly pitches at the level of their English proficiency and reference skills for ease of use and acquiring linguistic knowledge.

With limited knowledge of and training in dictionary use, most students, and/or parents, would make a decision based on the obvious facts and concepts they could understand. A possible criterion in the case of a student is:

Student: I focus on the numbers shown: words and examples. Is it not right to expect a new edition to have more words, especially new words, and examples than the previous? Also, I look if there are any new functions that the dictionary offers to solve my study problems.

To this end, the student would be disappointed since most of the numbers on LDOCE6 remain the same as shown in the 5th edition (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 2009). The following are numbers which appear both in the 5th and 6th editions:

A further check of other words in LDOCE6 indicates that such information given to words in fact already exists in LDOCE5, for example, in words like newfangled, obsessive 1, aggrandizement and complacent. Based on the results of the several words under examination, LDOCE6 indeed has offered no change in this area other than the inclusion of the two labels on the label list in the front matter.

Print errors also appear on page 2126 when the dictionary explains what Longman Communication 9000 is for. On the second column of the page, the dictionary cites the word acquire as an example (see below).

Since LDOCE5 also gives the word a W2 label, there is reason to believe that the information given in LC9000 is an error. Information on the word buy, which is shown as the synonym of acquire, is also confusing. It was labeled with two circles on page 2126 but with three in the word entry of the dictionary [see below]. As a feature under the spotlight in this new edition, such errors found in the illustration of LC9000 are very conspicuous.

This part of the review has chosen ten words from the teaching material of a third year university ESP course to students majoring in Humanities and Social Science to check if the dictionary can support its claim to provide users help with academic studies. The words chosen for examination are related to the course assessment which requires students to review academic journal articles and prepare a literature review on a certain topic. In the course, students would have to tackle the following words:

Also, the Grammar notes given to the word claim1 affirm the value of such a new feature. They not only prompt users to be aware of register, but also the corresponding grammatical structure required (see entry below).

In this small-scale search, LDOCE6 is found to meet the needs of the subject users (EFL university students). In addition to precise and clear definitions, all the ten words under search are given either labels to indicate their academic status (with the insertion of the label AWL or formal), or circles to show their relative high frequency of use (LC9000); and such features help students to be better-informed in vocabulary learning and use. Such additional features surely add value to an already high-quality lexicographical publication.

N2 - shallow research on mobile dictionaries, superficial exploration of the significance of dictionary consultation for incidental learning, and little examination of the learning of polysemous words. In response to the call for comparing the effectiveness of monolingual mobile dictionaries and paper dictionaries in promoting incidental learning of polysemous words, we conducted an experiment among 99 intermediate Cantonese learners of English in Hong Kong. All participants were pretested to ensure that they had little pre-knowledge of the meanings of the target words in the contexts of this research. These subjects were asked to comprehend a reading text and look up ten underlined words, 44 of whom used the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Fifth Edition and 45 used the mobile app of this dictionary. To tap into how they achieved meaning determination, 12 subjects from each group were asked to report their thinking processes using different self-reporting protocols. The other subjects were tested immediately after task completion and one week later to measure their initial learning and retention of the target words. The results of the study show significant effectiveness of both paper and mobile dictionaries in facilitating incidental learning of polysemous words. However, both types of dictionaries have certain limitations of facilitative effects. The effectiveness of the mobile dictionary is constrained by the screen sizes of phones, yet that of the paper dictionary by the tedious format of information presentation.

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