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Benson, Morton; Benson, Evelyn – TESOL Quarterly, 1988
Describes the BBI Combinatory Dictionary of English and demonstrates its usefulness for advanced learners of English by administering a monolingual completion test, first without a dictionary and then with the BBI, to Hungarian and Russian English teachers. Both groups' scores improved dramatically on the posttest. (LMO)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Advanced Students, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)

Benson, Morton – TESOL Quarterly, 1989
Educational programs for teachers of English as a Second Language must devote more attention to differences between the standard varieties of American and British English, with instruction focusing on the major orthographic, morphological, syntactic, collocational, and lexical differences. (CB)
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)