Learner ' s references : from the monolingual to the bilingual dictionary

The Innovations of the English learner's dictionary are wellknown and Justly praised, but some authorities have begun to question the Anglo-Saxon ethnocentriclty of these monolingual dictionaries and wondered If thls genre Is Ideal for foreign learners, WhIIe we should avoid the extreme fallacy of the one-to-one lexk:al equivalent which constitutes the maln limitation of the traditional blllngual dictionary, the commercial success of various 'blllnguallsed' types and other pedagogical diction­ aries discussed In the literature of metalexlcography ought to make us re-thlnk the design features of the Ideal learner's dictionary, for English and other languages.