Journal of Al-Farahidis Arts

Modern dictionaries contain detailed information and are easily accessed and comprehended more than before. Electronic dictionaries (EDs) grow more and more important and attractive, satisfactory and well-liked for English teachers and learners at all levels. The use of electronic dictionaries in teaching English as a foreign language and in English classes has grown to be a substitute to a lot of students and teachers. For teachers, helping students to effectively use electronic dictionaries is regarded as one of the best means towards making them independent learners of lifelong language. This study investigates the effects of using electronic English dictionaries strategies to improve English learning especially vocabulary learning, 50 students of the third stage of EFL students in Geography department which is (unspecialized in English) at Tikrit university were chosen, to be divided in to two groups, control and experimental one. And the researcher allowed students in the experimental group to use electronic dictionary, while the students in control group received the traditional instruction.
Post-test applied to obtain the results, and to release to what extent electronic dictionary strategies help students in vocabularies learning, a questionnaire was designed and administrated also to forty-five students to measure to what extent such strategy would help students vocabularies' learning. Results showed a significant difference between the two groups. Dictionaries using effectively contribute to improve learners' learning vocabulary. That the functions of electronic dictionaries strategy are affected experimental students' performance in achievement test. This study also provides pedagogical implications for utilizing EDs as an effective learning tool.

Each social institution has its own importance in the process of socialization and cooperates and supports each other to support social construction. The family plays an important role in raising the individual and shaping his behavior, values and interests through the cultivation of values and behavioral patterns in the children. The school follows up on what the family started to do a deliberate educational function in order to prepare a conscious and educated generation capable of building and giving, and in the process of integrating students and their compatibility with the prevailing system of society through the various educational activities that achieve the student to satisfy the psychological, emotional, scientific and spiritual needs
Most of the educational institutions in the Iraqi society in the current stage have been subjected to tremendous vibrations and repercussions that led to a significant decline in educational performance, which reflected negatively on the social and family reality, which led to a clear imbalance in the value system in the community, which requires clear remedies and the joint efforts All specialists and stakeholders to reform this system to serve the community and the educational institution in all its branches.