It could be said that learner’s dictionaries are the most reliable expression
of lexicography in terms of providing the necessary tools to help the
learning process of a foreign language. This paper analyses three English
learner’s dictionaries in order to establish its stylistic patterns as well as to
compare them with four German learner’s dictionaries. Undoubtly, the
lexicography of English learner’s dictionaries is a model. However, we
argue that this model can not be transfered to German lexicography since
each language has its own particularities which demand specific solutions.
