Remarkably, in only a few recent years, the computer has become a powerful and increasinglyindispensable tool in every conceivable aspect of our daily lives. That most certainly includes thedaily lives of lexicographers！ They can now not only conveniently store many mill ions of sentencesfrom authentic spoken and written language, but also manipulate, display, and study the componentsof these sentences - the words and word partnerships (collocations) along with contextual factorsthat come into play as different meanings are expressed.
But if the computer is indispensable, so too is the sensitive, highly trained professional skill ofthe lexicographers. Indeed, their subtle judgment is all the more needed as the speed, power, andvast capacity of the computer reveal as never before the lexical complexity of a living language.
And there is a third indispensable factor: the pedagogical experience and expertise that guidethe Pearson Education team to present language learners with the information on current worldEnglish that is most necessary for them. The information is presented in a way that anticipates thelearners' needs to understand meanings and to express those meanings idiomatically in their ownspeech and writing.
The new LDOCE is a magnificent culmination of innovative energetic research along withcomputational techniques that are married to well-honed educational and lexicographical skills. Itbuilds on the vital experience of earlier editions and incorporates a host of new features - such as theextra wealth of information on collocations (just glance for a moment at the entry for the word paceand its 'collocation box').
What better way for learners to immerse themselves in today's English at its most vivid andlively！
