Descriptive statistical methods were used for analyzing the quantitative data. Internal reliability of the questionnaire was.81. It was sent to 99 students but a number 92 students responded.

A questionnaire was administered in two governmental secondary schools of Zulfi, Saudi Arabia.

The study also used interviews of EFL teachers to support the findings of the study by eliciting their perceptions about the use of dictionaries by students. The present study used survey method to gain the perception of the students about the use of monolingual dictionaries for. The use of monolingual dictionaries is thought to be very fruitful for learning vocabulary. It has proved to be helpful in learning vocabulary and developing language proficiency. The overall results indicate that EDs can improve vocabulary learning.ĭictionary is an acknowledged learning tool which has a tremendous role in acquiring a language. Based on the t-test results, the participants in ED group outperformed those of PD group. In order to check their short-term and long-term vocabulary learning, both groups took part in an immediate and delayed post-test respectively after the treatment. The participants of the PD group used their ordinary Paper Dictionaries for finding the meaning of words. The ED group participants were asked to use their mobile dictionary (Blue Dict dictionary), that include eight popular different dictionaries. Eighty-eight new target words were selected in order to be taught in this study. The participants were assigned to Electronic Dictionary (ED) group and Paper Dictionary (PD) group. Before the treatment, a Preliminary English Test was used for assessing the participants’ homogeneity. Seventy college students formed the participants of the study. Paper Dictionaries (PD) on vocabulary learning and retention of Iranian EFL learners.

The present study aims to explore the influence of Electronic Dictionaries (ED) Vs. The use of dictionaries is a great help in vocabulary learning and nowadays the emergence of electronic dictionaries has added a new and valuable resource for vocabulary learning. Vocabulary learning needs special strategies in language learning process. It concludes by focussing on the problems in handling monolingual dictionaries. The paper puts forth some recommendations and suggestions that will be helpful for using monolingual dictionaries. The results showed that students have positive views about the use of dictionaries for learning EFL they prefer to use monolingual dictionaries, but they cannot truly use them because bilingual dictionaries are easier and more helpful for them in translation as well as their process of learning English language due to their low proficiency levels. Collective thematic analysis of all interviews was conducted to analyze the qualitative data. Additional interviews with 9 teachers were also conducted to support the findings of the questionnaire.

The present study used survey method to gain the perception of the students about the use of monolingual dictionaries for learning EFL. Dictionary is an acknowledged learning tool which has a tremendous role in acquiring a language.

Monolingual dictionary