A Study of Electronic Dictionary Use and Attitudes among Iranian Students of Translation during COVID-19 Pandemic

Table 1

Learners’ purposes/reasons for consulting dictionary.

	Never (%)	Rarely (%)	Sometimes (%)	Often (%)	Always (%)
I use a dictionary to find meanings	0	4.7	23.4	40.6	31.2
I read the grammatical information given with the word	0	14.1	48.4	28.1	9.4
I use a dictionary to find out pronunciation of the words	0	14.1	15.6	40.6	29.7
I read the users’ guide given in the dictionary	7.8	43.8	26.6	17.2	4.7
I prefer to use a specialized dictionary	3.1	9.4	35.9	34.4	17.2
I avoid going into the details given against a word in the dictionary. It saves my time	23.4	20.3	39.1	10.9	6.2