Students’ Attitudes towards The Role of Mobile Dictionaries in Facilitating Reading Comprehension

Abstract

Foreign language learners tend to utilize any possible means during the reading process to obtain more information, learn more vocabulary, and more importantly, comprehend the reading material at hand easily and effectively. The present study seeks to recognize the attitudes that EFL learners hold towards the role of mobile dictionaries in reading comprehension. To this end, the research adopts the descriptive method that includes quantitative and qualitative tools. Both a structured questionnaire and classroom observation designed to gather the needed data. The questionnaire was directed to Master One students (N=100), at the Department of English, University of 8 mai 1945, Guelma. The compiled data confirm the main hypothesis, which implies that EFL students have positive attitudes towards the role of mobile dictionaries in facilitating reading comprehension. Hence, the research advocates the use of mobile dictionaries as supplementary tools to overcome students’ reading comprehension difficulties at the level of ambiguous and unknown words. Finally, some implications are suggested for conducting further studies.