In the Chinese context, Jian et al. (2009) compared attitude of science and humanities students towards
electronic dictionaries and found that students considered reference speed or speed of reference to be the most
important feature of such dictionaries. Students did not deem other multimedia features which characterize such
dictionaries to be important.
In Japan, Bower and McMillan (2007) explored the students' attitude towards portable electronic dictionaries. It
was found that most students use electronic dictionaries and find them useful, yet, they are not fully aware of the
full potential and learning possibilities available through these dictionaries.
Other researchers found that the actual use of electronic dictionaries improves EFL students' skills in searching
and looking up information contained in them (Koyama & Takeuchi, 2007). Such improvement in the searching