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Reviews Here we present press reviews of the Macmillan
English Dictionary, as well as comments we have received from our
advisers, and feedback from students and teachers around the world. Comments
by teachers and writers ANGLO FILES – Journal of English Teaching No. 136, May 2005
Review
from Engine Magazine, Germany Issue 2/2005, June 2005 Review from The English Teacher - An International Journal Vol. 6 No. 2, July 2003 Macmillan English Dictionary CD-ROM (IATEFL Poland Review) Go digital - you'll be glad you did Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (SATEFL newsletter) You can call me Cinderella now! Now students of Indlish have paan to chew on The
Macmillan English Dictionary is a thoroughly modern work which
will carry students through years of study and provides a very viable
competitor to any of the other dictionaries for advanced learners currently
available, and in many ways beats them hands down. Highly recommended. The
Macmillan English Dictionary is unbeatable with up-to-date information
on many cultural items. It does a great job explaining differences between
British and American vocabulary. For reliable and easy-to-understand information
about hard words, reach for your Macmillan English Dictionary.
It's a great resource! Clear
layout and excellent coverage ... the central idea is that users don't
want long definitions with unnecessary grammar and usage details when
they look up a word while reading, but do need lots of information about
meaning and behaviour when they use a dictionary to speak and write. Very
attractive ... As the idea of using a lexical syllabus spreads, the Macmillan
English Dictionary is the ideal tool for giving students plenty of
information on grammar and vocabulary. The
menus for the long entries are a real strength – they make it much
easier to find one's way around an entry; the metaphor help notes are
novel and very useful for vocabulary building, and the feature, 'Other
ways of saying', is exceptionally valuable for learners who need to
write and speak English. I very much like the way core vocabulary has been presented, which will
help teachers to organize materials and lessons, and students to
prioritize items for study. I will certainly recommend it to my students
as the monolingual dictionary best suited to their needs as university
learners. What
is immediately striking to the reader is just how clear and attractive
each page appears to the eye. It makes it so easy to find one's way
around. Students
will particularly welcome the clear layout and the wealth of information
about how words behave in company. It
is the first time that an English monolingual learner dictionary
provides separate treatment of words for decoding and encoding purposes,
and I believe EFL learners will find the dictionary extremely valuable
and companionable. The
usage information is especially helpful, as are the plentiful lists of
synonyms and collocational information. Extremely
user-friendly. The definitions are clear and concise. The examples are
informative and interesting. This is the best dictionary that I have ever
seen. Thank you for your amazing Macmillan
English Dictionary for Advanced Learners! It is a great pleasure to work
with! I am student of English and I use your MED.
It is great. I just want to thank you for your e-lessons, those are
super too. I think
the Macmillan English Dictionary is really helpful for students
who study English as a Second Language. It is very useful for learning
idiomatic English. I like the rich example sentences and the information
about collocations. the MED is the perfect dictionary for advanced learners! I am a student at the
Beijing Foreign Studies University. I was very excited when I got the MED.
It's really a perfect dictionary. Thank you. The
dictionary is wonderful. I love it very much. Many teachers recommend
that we use this dictionary. My first language is Chinese. I used
to use a bilingual dictionary. But my teacher said that if I wanted to
improve my English, I had to use a monolingual dictionary. And the Macmillan
English Dictionary is the best choice. I bought it a couple
of days ago. The more I use it, the more I love it. Your
dictionary is SUPER! I've been learning English for one year and I use
it very often. COMMENTS BY TEACHERS AND WRITERS Thank you very much for sending me your wonderful dictionary with the Workbooks! It's a terrific dictionary, really. Especially for someone like me who is far from perfect, it is a great help to find immediately e.g. the adjectives that best accompany a certain noun. Whenever I put my nose into it - I find I can't stop, it's so fascinating. You can be sure that I will recommend it most enthusiastically to our teachers. The Workbook that goes with it is great too! How many generations of teachers had to make do without such good help and excellent propositions? Finding relevant and good-quality teaching materials which use English in a natural way is not always easy when living in a non-English-speaking country...The cooperation between Macmillan Publishers and Learning English/Guardian Weekly is of great benefit to teachers like me...The dictionary is excellent. The use of colour and pictures throughout are of great assistance to students. Just now, I teach English to executives in the business and IT sectors. I will be recommending this dictionary to the students I teach. ...I look forward to using this dictionary and the other materials with my
students. The
Macmillan English Dictionary is the best English-English dictionary
for understanding and translating very complicated commercial and legal
documents. I am just writing to say that in my opinion you have met your challenge to issue dictionaries that are accessible and easy to use. I can tell you that I have been using the Macmillan English Dictionary for a year, perhaps even longer, and I am delighted, particularly with the CD-ROM design. Although I have other dictionaries on my shelves, Macmillan's is the one which I use and which makes my life as a teacher easier. Since I have just found out that you have won the British Council Innovation Award, I would like to congratulate you on that project. I would also like to thank you for providing such a useful 'tool', but a tool with a heart, for English learners. I
feel I have gained a lot of useful, practical and rewarding strategies
in playing my role as a teacher. I keep recommending your site and the
Macmillan dictionary to both my colleagues and students. They
are marvelous. I really appreciate your sending me the e-lessons and all
the rest. I
received the Macmillan English Dictionary last Friday. I had already
seen the dictionary and I attended a great talk by
Michael Rundell. I would like to congratulate you because the dictionary
is not just a dictionary, it's a masterpiece! I've
been getting very good, positive feedback from students and colleagues
on the Macmillan English Dictionary. What is really helpful to
students (and to us too!) are the usage and grammar explanations, e.g.
on the use of modal verbs, which are very often problem areas for students.
The various meanings words have and how they can be used in everyday language
are also very well presented.
I was so enthusiastic about the Macmillan English Dictionary
with CD-ROM that I wrote a five-star review of it for both
amazon.co.uk and
amazon.de. I recommend it highly to all language lovers and particularly
to foreign language university students. Thank you so much for your kindness
and for the precious dictionary! Thank
you, Macmillan, for this fantastic idea. This web site has become my NUMBER
ONE resource to prepare my lessons. I have found the Word of the Week
section fascinating. Congratulations, once more, for this great idea,
and thank you very much for the precious information. I
think the MED is a superb reference book which successfully combines
all the best features of modern ELT dictionaries and clearly stands out
from its competitors thanks to its comprehensive treatment of both content
and form. Its clear and visually attractive layout is the perfect framework
to present thorough and up-to-date corpus information on words, collocations,
cultural and grammar notes together with numerous self-explanatory and
memorable pictures. And if the printed MED is that good, the electronic
version is even more impressive: the CD-ROM has an appealing and friendly
interface that allows the user to do many things apart from just looking
up words quickly and efficiently: you can add your own notes, create personalised
wordlists to revise vocabulary, listen to British and American pronunciations,
record and contrast your own voice with that of native speakers so that
you can improve your diction, and delight in browsing through a wonderful
collection of clickable pictures, the only drawback being the impossibility
of copying them from the CD-ROM directly into a Word document! Fortunately,
its many functions in just one CD together with further online support
(invaluable tips in the MED monthly magazine to fully exploit its
capabilities in the classroom and the free ready-made lessons you can
download from the website) more than compensate for that aspect and deserve
my deepest appreciation.
By
the way your dictionary's the best one at the moment on the market. It's
excellent! Yours is particularly good compared to what's available now. The CD has proved to be of great help, like you have a native speaker by your side always ready to provide you with the most accurate pronunciation.” This dictionary supported by a CD-ROM should be the dictionary of the decade. Keep up your good work and please accept my gratitude. I am absolutely delighted with the Macmillan English
Dictionary: it is even better than I expected. I do my best to give my students the most efficient materials; that is why the
MED is the one I needed greatly. It is extremely useful for me when I get ready for my lessons, and to check whether I know the meaning of those 7,500 red words. I have already found a lot of new collocations and idioms. And I know that new 'discoveries' are awaiting me. Many thanks for
the dictionary!!!
This is the greatest present I have ever received!
I really appreciate your kindness and will use it
immediately for my daily work. The Macmillan
English Dictionary is interesting and user-friendly. Putting the
most frequently used words in red and the system of using stars is just
brilliant. Another strong point is the way phrasal verbs are presented -
absolutely clear and easy to find. I've
recently purchased the Macmillan English Dictionary and what is
there to say other than it's absolutely fantastic! The definitions that
are given leave very little explanation from me. Everyone should have a
copy! A million thanks to all who have contributed towards this
masterpiece. I
really think it's a very good work of reference – with a user-friendly
structure and design and with all the newest expressions – I am
sure I can profit a lot from it and it's fun even browsing! Yesterday
the postman brought the Macmillan English Dictionary. It has become one of
the most memorable days of my life. I would like to congratulate you on
this excellent dictionary. I teach a group of advanced students and they
love looking up words in it! They also love the 'Word of the Week'
feature of the website. The Macmillan English Dictionary is a
very good dictionary. It's really a great achievement and reflects the
expertise of all those involved. The Macmillan
English Dictionary with CD is really unique and very special. I
recommended it to all my clients here in Germany. Two of the main strengths of the Macmillan
English Dictionary for Advanced Learners are, firstly, its clear
layout and, secondly, a plethora of corpus-based examples which provide
particularly useful information on collocations and grammar patterns.
The dictionary covers everything upper-intermediate to advanced learners
will ever need or want to know about the English language and is an
excellent reference tool. The Macmillan English Dictionary for
Advanced Learners is, in my opinion, one of the best advanced
learners’ dictionaries on the market today. I
am delighted with the Macmillan English Dictionary and I will definitely
recommend it to my numerous students. I
browsed around the dictionary, and I can honestly say that this is one
of the best, if not actually *the* best, electronic dictionary for
learners of English I have seen (and I have seen quite a few of them). I
hope other people will enjoy your CD as much as I do. I
am very impressed with the dictionary and the CD. They are just what I
need for my students and I have recommended them to get a copy.
It is the best one I have seen so far. I
am very pleased with the user navigation and overall presentation of the
MED. I would like to congratulate the Macmillan team on bringing out an
excellent product. I have no hesitation in recommending this product to
others as it is the best product in its class. What
I particularly liked is the phonetic search facility, a must for serious
users of machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs), and a functionality I
have long been appealing to lexicographers to implement in their
dictionaries. As far as I can see, the MED is now the only learners’ MRD
to provide for fully-fledged phonetic searches. Congratulations! I really like the Macmillan English Dictionary. It has very comprehensive coverage; the countless meanings of ‘heavy-duty’ words like go, get, come are laid out admirably clearly; the ‘menus’ at the top of multi-meaning words are an excellent idea and very helpful; collocations, idioms and other fixed expressions stand out well and are easily spotted; the listing of words that most frequently collocate with the headword is a revolutionary innovation of great usefulness; information on usage and synonyms is generously and intelligently provided; the ‘Metaphor’ boxes unique to this dictionary will really help students to develop a lively, graphic and varied style. I spent a whole train journey reading the ‘Language Awareness’ section inserted in the middle of the dictionary. These essays on such topics as ‘Phrasal verbs’, ‘Academic writing’, ‘Spoken discourse’, ‘Avoiding offence’, ‘British and American English’, ‘Business English’, and ‘Word formation’ are completely state-of-the-art and well written – a systematic ‘extra’ that ideally complements the abundant alphabetical information. The whole product is extremely pleasing aesthetically. It’s
an excellent dictionary with extraordinary coverage and interesting
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