剑桥高级英语词典介绍.pptVIP

* Before I start, I have a question for you guys? How many of you are aware of your own purpose when you open a dictionary? According to a survey made by Harvey and Yuill in 1997, ….. * According to a book titled Learning Vocabulary in another language by P. Nation, published by CUP in 2001, * * 17m words – we believe it’s the biggest collection of learner writing in the world 45,000 scripts or exam papers (Figures at Sept 2003 – check corpus website for latest figures /elt/corpus To give you an idea of its size – It’s the equivalent of about 70 Jeffery Archer novels! Imagine 70 or more