Comparing two dictionaries

The first ELT dictionaries appeared after the Second World War. These dictionaries had been improved and today they contain more phrasal verbs, idioms and give clearer definitions. The most popular monolingual dictionaries are the Cobuild English Learner’s (CEL) and the Oxford Advanced Learner’s (OAL) dictionaries.
First of all, these two dictionaries are similar in their macrostructure. This is because they give entries, which are arranged in alphabetical order of headwords. Besides, Cobuild like Oxford contains some tables of grammar with the use of tenses which are followed by many examples so that the learner of English could understand the rules easier.
Two main similarities in microstructure are that the definitions are clear to understand, because they are written with high frequency words, and all the grammatical information given in the entry helps to improve foreign learner’s vocabulary and to use the language productively. Besides, there are some words in English that have the same spelling but are differently pronounced. Consequently, the publications include American English, British English and Australian English pronunciation that is written in IPA (International Phonetic Association) symbols. Furthermore, Oxford likewise Cobuild gives the superlative forms of adjectives e.g.: healthy (healthier, healthiest) and include derivative words in their entries. However, some derivatives do not have their own entry in the dictionary because they can...

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