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Oxford Fajar: Key Publishing Areas
Oxford Fajar is one of the most successful publishers in Malaysia with an established reputation for quality, authority, and integrity. It publishes 300 titles a year in a variety of languages (Malay, English, Chinese, and Tamil) for different market sectors from pre-school to tertiary. Its diverse publishing programme includes educational books for schools and colleges, dictionaries, and academic and trade books. Oxford Fajar is the market leader in many sectors and categories of publishing.
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Pre-school
Oxford Fajar's pre-school list is outstanding for its coverage of the national pre-school curriculum and its exciting product range. There are coursebooks, workbooks, readers, phonics books, and dictionaries for various subjects and levels. Pre-school best-sellers include the Genius Series, the Sound Starters, Sound Stories, Sound Rhymes Series, and the Reading Rhymes Series.
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Guidebooks
Oxford Fajar's list of authoritative guidebooks covers all the major public examinations and includes comprehensive guidebooks, topical practice books, and model test papers. The two leading guidebook series, Explorasi and Sukses, are renowned for the quality of their content and their innovative features.
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English Language Teaching (ELT)
Oxford Fajar is the foremost ELT publisher in Malaysia. Its comprehensive range of high-quality ELT coursebooks, workbooks, guidebooks, dictionaries, teaching aids, and readers have enjoyed unrivalled success in their target markets.
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Science and Mathematics
Oxford Fajar's highly regarded Science and Mathematics list comprises textbooks, workbooks, reference books, and teaching aids for various markets. The newly developed Science textbooks in English for Form Six are the premier texts in their fields.
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Form Six, College, and Teacher Training
Besides school textbooks, Oxford Fajar has successfully developed textbooks for Form Six and colleges in English and Malay, covering both Science and Social Science subjects. Prominent science titles include Success in Biology for STPM, Physical Chemistry for STPM, and Physics for STPM, while popular Social Science titles are Tamadun Dunia and Pengajian Am. Oxford Fajar also has a well-received list of teacher training materials, including Siri Diploma Perguruan, Siri Pendidikan Perguruan, and Kursus Perguruan Lepas Ijazah.
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Dictionaries
Oxford Fajar has built on the Oxford name and lexicographic expertise to develop its dictionaries for the local market. It is renowned for its dictionaries in Malay, English, Chinese, Tamil, Iban, Kadazan, and Arabic.
For pre-school, it has bilingual (Malay-English) and trilingual (Malay-English-Chinese) picture dictionaries, while for primary school, it has monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual dictionaries, among which are the New Malaysian Learner's English Dictionary, Kamus Bahasa Melayu KBSM, and Kamus Bergambar Jawi (Bahasa Malaysia-Bahasa Inggeris).
The dictionary list for secondary school includes Oxford Fajar's most successful title, the Kamus Dwibahasa Oxford Fajar, which has sold over 3.5 million copies, and other major titles such as the Oxford Wordpower Dictionary for KBSM, the Oxford Fajar Advanced Learner's English-Malay Dictionary, and the Science and Mathematics Dictionary for KBSM.
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Teaching Aids
Oxford Fajar has earned a sterling reputation for its innovative teaching aids-wall charts, flash cards, transparencies, resource packages, cassettes, and CD-ROMs. These have all been carefully researched and developed for specific markets in a variety of languages.
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Atlases
One of the few publishers with the resources to invest in long-term projects, Oxford Fajar is the leading publisher of both primary and secondary atlases in Malaysia. Major titles include Atlas Moden KBSM Malaysia dan Dunia, Atlas Eksplorasi Geografi KBSM, and Atlas Informatif KBSR.
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Readers
Oxford Fajar has a diverse and carefully structured readers list with a range of materials for students of all abilities. There are several series in both Malay and English, offering a wide choice of genres and topics, including adaptations of classic and modern literature, mystery, humour, romance, and folk tales.
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Academic and Trade
Oxford Fajar has since its early days maintained a tradition of publishing academic and trade books in English for Malaysia and South-East Asia.
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Key OUP Publications
Besides developing and managing its own publishing programme, Oxford Fajar acts as the importer and distributor of books from Oxford and New York for the local market. With the increasing emphasis on English as the main language of international communication and business, imports are becoming an increasingly important part of Oxford Fajar's business.
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Oxford ELT
As the world's leading publisher of ELT books and materials, Oxford ELT provides an unrivalled range of resources for everyone learning English from primary school children to business executives. Its range includes general English-language courses, vocational and business courses, materials for improving grammar and vocabulary, exam preparation courses, books for teachers, and prize-winning applied linguistics titles. Oxford's ELT authors are the best in the field, writing books based on their experience of teaching learners. Among OUP's widely acclaimed ELT titles are New Headway, Natural English, How English Works, The Good Grammar Book, and English for Primary Teachers.
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Oxford Readers
Oxford has been publishing quality readers for children since 1907. The Oxford Reading Tree, a complete programme for teaching children to read, is the most popular reading programme in UK schools and has been adapted for use in many other countries worldwide. Other best-selling series with widespread appeal are the Oxford Bookworms Library, Dominoes, the Oxford Storyland Readers, and the Oxford Progressive English Readers (OPER).
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Oxford Mathematics and Science
Oxford's Maths and Science list for schools comprises many innovative courses which are extremely popular with teachers all over the world. They contain up-to-date material which can be used to complement the teaching of Science and Mathematics locally. Among the newly developed, highly popular courses for secondary school are Framework Maths, Mathswise, Framework Science, World of Science, and Starting Science.
Oxford also publishes a range of authoritative textbooks for A level and college, and revision guides for AS and A level. In addition, it has an enviable list of science reference works for school and college, including the 10-volume Young Oxford Library of Science, Oxford Primary Science Dictionary, Oxford Primary Maths Dictionary, and subject dictionaries for Mathematics and Science.
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Oxford Dictionaries
Oxford dictionaries are widely acknowledged as the world's most trusted dictionaries. OUP's flagship dictionary is The Oxford English Dictionary, the biggest and greatest dictionary of any language in the world and generally recognized as the ultimate authority on English usage. It was launched online in March 2000.
Other top-of-the-range Oxford dictionaries are the authoritative and comprehensive Compact Oxford Dictionary of English, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, and the Oxford Dictionary of English. Major reference dictionaries include the Concise Oxford Dictionary, Compact Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Reference Dictionary, and Concise Oxford Thesaurus.
Oxford publishes the world's best-selling learner's dictionary, the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, which has sold over 30 million copies. Other successful learner's dictionaries are the Oxford Student's Dictionary of English and the Oxford Wordpower Dictionary.
OUP also has an extensive range of subject dictionaries and bilingual dictionaries. It produces many of its bilingual dictionaries as joint ventures with authoritative dictionary publishers in other languages, such as the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary and the Oxford-Duden German Dictionary.
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