MED Magazine


	FROM THE EDITOR In this Issue Contributors Letters to the Editor Write to Us Spread the Word Back Issues FEATURE What's in a word? Professor Michael Hoey considers the consequences of changes in lexicography COLUMNS Language Interference False Friends between Spanish and English Read about cognates, false friends and unreliable friends Focus on Language Awareness: Word formation Introduction Common processes of word formation in English UK version ¦ US version New word of the month Compounds and blends Top Tips for the CD-ROMs Using the CD-ROM for teaching collocations onestopenglish.com		In this Issue Welcome to the August issue of the MED Magazine, the monthly webzine of the Macmillan English Dictionaries resource site! In the feature article this month Michael Hoey, Chief Adviser of the Macmillan English Dictionary and Baines Professor of English Language, considers the innovations which resulted from the revolution in lexicography at the end of the 20th century, and evaluates how language is described in pre-corpus and corpus-based learners' dictionaries. The top tips in this issue give you advice on how you can teach collocations, idiomatic phrases and grammar patterns with the help of the MED and Essential CD-ROMs. We continue the series on Language Interference with an article about English and Spanish cognates, false friends and unreliable friends. Word formation is the topic of the new word column. This article describes how new words are formed as a result of the productive processes of compounding and blending. The Language Awareness article takes a broader look at how words are formed and describes the most common types of word formation in the English language. I hope you will enjoy reading the articles in this issue. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. If you would like to contact us, please fill in this form and e-mail it to us. Click here to see what our readers have said about the MED Magazine. Kati Sule Editor