The findings from the questionnaire survey suggest a growing trend for pocket
electronic dictionaries. The findings accord with the findings of previous studies
that PED use will increase (Taylor and Chan 1994, Midlane 2005). Only a
few participants would like to buy monolingual dictionaries. This may be taken
to imply that the use of monolingual dictionaries was imposed on the participants
and if they had their own choice to choose what dictionaries to buy, they
might not have bought monolingual dictionaries as recommended by the
Department.