Course: Understanding English Dictionaries

Here we introduce two dictionaries, Wiktionary and Urban Dictionary, which both rely on user-generated content but are actually quite different. Before we examine those differences, however, there are a couple …

A distinction is often made between those who have grown up entirely in the internet-connected world (the so-called ‘digital natives’) and those who started to use the internet as adults …

In the past, educational theorists such as Ivan Illich argued that formal schooling prevents us from thinking for ourselves and sharing what we know. Illich proposed that, instead of going …

So, you have an idea in your own mind of what a dictionary is, but do you have any idea how many different types and formats of dictionary there are? …

We asked a few people in Coventry why they used dictionaries and this is what they said. Your task What different uses for dictionaries did the people in the video …

The simplest use of a dictionary is to check the meaning of a word when we are reading – as long as we can find out what the word means …