7.2 Post Experiment Results
In order to enhance the students' motivation to use the online dictionaries and to raise their awareness of their
special features, the researcher added a new requirement to the course, which is looking up "word of the day"
from Dictionary. Com. The students were involved in this activity for a period of 10 weeks in the middle of the
spring semester. After the experiment, the researcher asked the students to sit again for a parallel version of the
TOEFL test and to fill out the questionnaire based on their new extensive experience of using the dictionary.
Again, in this section, results will be presented in the order of research questions.