The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Chinese Edition) [Paperback]

E. C. Parnwell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 13, 1989 | ISBN-10: 019434357X | ISBN-13: 978-0194343572 | Edition: English/Chinese

Published in 1988, this dictionary continues to be a favorite of many teachers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; English/Chinese edition (April 13, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019434357X
• ISBN-13: 978-0194343572
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,436 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great for lower level students., April 27, 2000

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Rusty Keele (Salt Lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Chinese Edition) (Paperback)

I use multiple versions of this book to help my students (mostly beginning and intermediate) enlarge their English vocabulary. I am currently using the Spanish-English, Chinese-English and Korean-English versions. I believe that they are good books, and very useful as supplements to ESL classes. THE GOOD: 1) The book is organized nicely for teaching beginning level students. It is organized into 12 units, such as: people, housing and recreation. This makes it easy to find a good vocabulary list for students to concentrate on. 2) The full color illustrations are nice, and make it easy for students to understand the word, even if they are using the monolingual edition. It is nice for students to try to figure out or learn the word without depending on the written translation. 3) Each page has some teaching suggestions at the bottom. While I don't always use them, they have come in handy for giving my students extra practice at using the new vocabulary. 4) There are some nice indices at the back of the book. These cover everything from irregular verbs to geography to alphabetical listings of the vocabulary. THE BAD: 1) While there are many good words, there are also a lot of common words missing. I find myself using a regular English-language dictionary to explain some words to my students. 2) Some of the translations aren't that great. My students have found errors (or just an outdated word) in both the Spanish-English and Korean-English versions. 3) This dictionary really is for beginning or intermediate users. My advanced students don't really like using it, as they already know most of the words in it. OVERALL: The Oxford Picture Dictionaries are great tools when used to supplement a lower level class. But if you are teaching more advanced students, maybe some other language-English dictionary would be better.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not useful for English-speaking students of Chinese, December 23, 1998

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This review is from: The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Chinese Edition) (Paperback)

The New Oxford Pciture Dictionary (English/Chinese) is not useful for English-speaking students of Chinese. There is no transliteration for the Chinese characters, which are printed in a very hard-to-read light blue ink. This dictionary could be useful to Chinese-speaking students of English. However, they would need a good knowledge of the Western alphabet and sound system to use it.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars dictionary does not have any pin-yin, not useful unless you read chinese, October 17, 2005

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Lynne H. Chen (san francisco, california) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Chinese Edition) (Paperback)

i bought the dictionary, hoping to use it as a reference tool to teach my 4 year old chinese. i am a native speaker myself. it is a good reference, if you can read chinese characters. But since it doesn't have pin-yin, you really can't use the dictionary to learn how to pronounce any of the words.