Effectiveness of Electronic Dictionary in College Students’ English Learning

Abstract

The study investigates on college students’ attitude towards electronic dictionary, the reason why they use electronic dictionary, electronic dictionary’ advantages and disadvantages by comparing with traditional printed dictionary, and how to improve effectiveness of electronic dictionary in English learning. By analyzing the data got through a questionnaire released on line we found that a vast majority of college students use electronic dictionaries in their English learning. But most of them use it in a simple way, i.e. to use it just to find out the meaning of a new word. To improve the effectiveness of electronic dictionary using needs the joint efforts of the governments, the educators and students themselves.