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8. ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS

8. ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS. Dictionaries and Thesauruses Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis Translators for language analysis Encyclopedias for research and project work. Dictionaries and thesauruses.

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8. ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS

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  1. 8. ONLINE REFERENCE TOOLS Dictionaries and Thesauruses Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis Translators for language analysis Encyclopedias for research and project work

  2. Dictionaries and thesauruses • A monolingualdictionary uses the same language for the words and their definitions. • A thesaurus is a book that organizes words by categories and concepts, so synonyms and near-synonyms will be grouped together.

  3. Dictionaries • http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/mini-dictionary.html TYPES OF DICTIONARY: • Click on the links below to find out more about the different kinds of dictionaries available: • Bilingual Dictionary • Monolingual Dictionary • Etymological Dictionary • Crossword Dictionary • Rhyming Dictionary • Mini-Dictionary • Pocket Dictionary • Thesaurus • Glossary • http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ • http://vvv.sederet.com/translate.php • http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

  4. Thesauruses • Thesauruses are more suited to intermediate and advanced level.

  5. Concordancers and corpuses for language analysis • A concordancer is similar to a search engine in many respects. Essentially, it is a small program that can examined large quantities of text for patterns and occurences of particular words and phrases.

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