A good dictionary is of great help for students’ to enhance their oral English. Of course, it takes time to select suitable dictionary. Concise dictionaries without examples and grammar usages have no value for learners. Accordingly, it is advisable to select those dictionaries with analyses and examples of grammar and context. What’s more, learners in different study stage should choose dictionaries conformed to their English proficiency. For example, based on about most-frequently-used 10000 English words, Modern Pictorial and Practical English-Chinese Dictionary translated and compiled by Xu Qingti features grammar, practical sentence pattern, synonymy, collocation and spelling, all of which are especially adapted for beginners. A Dictionary of Current English Usage compiled by Zhang Daozhen offers a variety of word usage with examples as much as possible. Students can learn the collocation and context for usage of a specific word, which is of great help for preliminary and intermediate learners. If learners reach higher level in English, English-English dictionaries should be applied in their study rather than English-Chinese dictionaries of high dependency, the reason for which is that learners will retrace to Chinese context the moment they encounter new words.
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