Words that occur particularly frequently in an academic context are marked with an Academic Word List symbol. The dictionary includes over 22,000 words, phrases and meanings, all of them with an academic focus. The dictionary shows where meanings and usage are differentĪcademic English, and words and phrases from particular subject areas are clearly marked. It includes detailed and focused treatment of the words that EAP students really need to know well in order to bring their own academic writing up to the standards required by their course. The dictionary gives in-depth treatment to the academic English that is used across the disciplines. The dictionary shows how general English words are used in different ways across academic subject areas. The dictionary is informed by the 85-million-word Oxford Corpus of Academic English, which includes a broad range of texts from 26 different disciplines within the subject areas of humanities, social It is the only learner's dictionary to focus exclusively on academic English. The Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English is designed for learners studying, or preparing to study, academic subjects on English-medium university courses.
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