Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. RESEARCH INTO DICTIONARY USE AND DESIGN -- FOUR PERSPECTIVES ON DICTIONARY USE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH METHODS -- A RESEARCH PROJECT INTO THE USE OF LEARNERS' DICTIONARIES -- DICTIONARIES AND THE INTERMEDIATE STUDENT: COMMUNICATIVE NEEDS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF USER REFERENCE SKILLS -- THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN LEXICOGRAPHY AND LEXICOLOGY -- CONTROLLING LDOCE'S CONTROLLED VOCABULARY -- PART II .THE DICTIONARY IN TEACHING AND TRANSLATION -- THE PLACE OF THE DICTIONARY IN AN EFL PROGRAMME -- DICTIONARY-USING SKILLS: A PLEA FOR A NEW ORIENTATION IN LANGUAGE TEACHING -- ANTICIPATING LEARNERS' ERRORS - IMPLICATIONS FOR DICTIONARY WRITERS -- FL LEARNERS' COMMUNICATION FAILURE: IMPLICATIONS FOR PEDAGOGICAL LEXICOGRAPHY -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DICTIONARY CONCEPT: AN ENGLISH LEARNER'S DICTIONARY AND AN EXOTIC ALPHABET -- TOWARDS A LEARNER'S BILINGUAL DICTIONARY -- PART III. PROGRESS IN DICTIONARY DESIGN -- MONOSEMOUS WORDS AND THE DICTIONARY -- SYNTAX., THE DICTIONARY AND THE LEARNER'S COMMUNICATIVE NEEDS -- ILLUSTRATIONS IN DICTIONARIES -- THE ROLE OF EXAMPLES IN A LEARNER'S DICTIONARY -- EXAMPLES IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES -- BEYOND THE DEFINITION: SOME PROBLEMS WITH EXAMPLES IN RECENT CHINESE-ENGLISH AND ENGLISH-CHINESE BILINGUAL DICTIONARIES -- THE TREATMENT OF PHONOLOGICAL IDIOMS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY