剑桥高级英语词典介绍.ppt

* 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 huge Jeffery Archer novels written in learner language To give you an idea of its scope, if you look for a word like enormous you’ll find over 500 sentences where learners have used the word and if you look for ‘big’ you’ll find around 20,000 examples So what exactly is IN the CLC? * 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 huge Jeffery Archer novels written in learner language To give you an idea of its scope, if you look for a word like enormous you’ll find over 500 sentences where learners have used the word and if you look for ‘big’ you’ll find around 20,000 examples So what exactly is IN the CLC? * We can look at any error type and examine it in context and in detail. There are 88 error types. Various errors to do with every Part of Speech as well as miscellaneous ones such as register errors, formation of negative etc Today I’m only going to show you a tiny selection of very obvious examples but we are able to search on any of the 88 codes and on groupings of them as well to compare error rates So let’s look at a search for a specific error The next screen shows a search for where students have used the