Abstract
Picture dictionaries are thought to be only for children. With their beautiful and colorful pictures, they can tell children many things around their world in simple, plain and vivid English. They help children of native speakers of English learn how to use and spell words of their mother tongue in their lives. I believe what is useful to children can also be useful to students learning English as foreign language. Not ignoring picture dictionaries as materials only for children, we should think about their usefulness as materials for learning vocabulary. In this paper, I put focus on expressive adjectives in picture dictionaries because we use them most to express our feeling toward things, events and people around us. It is adjectives that are most expressive and helpful in expressing our feeling and emotion, which might be a staring point of improving our students' communicative competence. What I wish to show here is picture dictionaries for primary school children include more expressive adjectives than word lists for students learning English as foreign language and could be of more help to our students who are in most cases too shy to say anything about their feeling.
