This presentation is part of my work for Language Resource.

1. The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Online LDOCE Jennifer Isasi Language Resources

2. Whose is this resource? Owned and operated by Pearson Education Limited (1999-2009) Registered company in England and Wales

3. Which software does it use? Dictionary powered by the IDM IDM? A XML Content Management Software

4. How is it built? Using a corpus Which corpus? Longman Corpus Network

5. WhatistheLongman Corpus Network ? A huge database of 330 million words from a wide range of real-life sources such as books, newspapers and magazines.

6. Which are the benefits of this corpus? The dictionary can give full coverage of thousands of natural word combinations Typical learners’ mistakes are analyzed and includes notes on how to avoid them

7. Whatdoes LDOCE offer? Searchable contents of the A-Z text Selected headwords pronounced in British and American English Selected example sentences pronounced, to help you improve your intonation

8. How can you use this dictionary? First: Search a word

9. How can you use this dictionary? The source will give you the whole collection that its corpus recognizes

10. How can you use this dictionary? Choose the word you are looking for You will get the category, definitions, examples and idioms or phrases.

11. Any problem? Don’t panic! If you have a problem with any word in the definition above: Double-click on it -a new window will pop-up

12. Are there any more tools? Yes Word Focus

13. Are there any more tools? Yes Word of the day

14. In short? Simple –one click Visual –pictures Audio –pronunciation