Saudi English majors prefer tech-based digital dictionaries for ease of use, portability, and portability, while mainly using paper dictionaries for paper-based words.

A Survey Study of the Dictionary Use Sub-strategies of English Majors in Saudi Arabia: Dictionary Related Aspects

Saudi college students believe in the importance of using English dictionaries for language learning, but lack awareness and training in using monolingual dictionaries.

Exploring Saudi College Students' Attitudes toward Using English Dictionaries at Albaha University

Corpus-based activities significantly improve verb-noun collocation learning in Saudi EFL classes compared to traditional methods.

Effect of Corpus-based Activities on Learning Verb–Noun 
Collocations in Saudi EFL Classes

Saudi EFL learners primarily use dictionaries to find meanings and pronunciations, but face challenges in understanding phonetic symbols, finding correct words, and finding illustrative examples.

An Investigation into Practices and Perceptions of Saudi University Learners of English towards Their Dictionaries’ Use for Learning Purposes

English majors at Al-Imam University need better dictionary use, better understanding of their difficulties, and better dictionary types to facilitate the teaching/learning process.

Activation of Using English Dictionaries by English Majors at Al-Imam University: Uses, Difficulties, and Types of Used Dictionaries

Saudi undergraduate students struggle with translating Arabic collocations into English due to literal translation, bilingual dictionaries, and limited knowledge of the concept in both languages.

The difficulty of translating collocations from Arabic into English encountered by a sample of Arab students

Using mobile translation applications, such as Reverso, is more effective for translating fixed and medium-strength collocations than weak ones, enhancing students' translation skills.

Effect of using mobile translation applications for translating collocations

Academic lectures and multimedia theory effectively facilitate the incidental acquisition of L2 collocations for L1 Arabic learners through reading, viewing, and viewing with captions.

Incidental Learning of L2 Collocations in an Academic Lecture: A Multimedia Theory Perspective

Using dictionaries in translation exams improves accuracy, but allowing them in the first half and banning them in the second half may strike a balance between accuracy and coherence concerns.

The Effect of Using Dictionaries in Translation Exams on the Target Text

Saudi EFL students prefer bilingual dictionaries over monolingual ones, but struggle to locate the right entry in dictionaries, highlighting the need for dictionary skills training in educational settings.

A Study of Dictionary Use by Saudi EFL Students at Qassim University

Saudi undergraduate students predominantly use literal translation for adjective plus noun and verb plus object collocations in political texts, but sometimes use synonymy strategies, as cultural-specific collocations are easier to find in the target language.

Strategies in Translating Collocations in Political Texts: Case study of the Beirut Port Explosion 2020

Saudi high school students prefer using free dictionaries on their mobile phones or other online dictionaries over the Madrasati platform for English language learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Investigating the Adaptation of Saudi High School Students to Electronic Dictionaries as Language Learning Tools

EFL learners in Saudi Arabia use electronic and paper-based dictionaries for limited purposes beyond spelling and meaning checks, but should be considered an essential language learning source for diverse skill development.

MULTIPLICATION OF DICTIONARY USES IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Vietnamese advanced language learners find the Oxford online collocation dictionary useful for adjective-noun and verb-noun grammatical patterns, but need more content, pronunciation, and word suggestions.

Online Collocation Dictionary in L2 Writing: How Learners Use and Perceive Its Effectiveness

Sudanese English majors recognize the crucial role of dictionaries in language learning, but their limited use and focus on reading rather than productive skills hinder their understanding of lexicography.

Investigating Students' Attitudes towards Pedagogical Dictionaries: A Study of Sudanese English Majors

Students prefer monolingual dictionaries for learning English as a Foreign Language, but bilingual dictionaries are easier and more helpful due to their low proficiency levels.

Learners’ Perceptions of Monolingual Dictionaries in Learning English as a Foreign Language

Saudi EFL learners in the UK make fewer grammatical collocation errors than those in the KSA, with L1 interference, avoidance, and lack of knowledge being key factors.

The Use of Grammatical Collocations by Advanced Saudi EFL Learners in the UK and KSA

Arab undergraduate EFL learners' collocational competence is unsatisfactory, improves with language exposure, and is more confident in verb + noun collocations, but produces more intralingual errors than interlingual errors.

The Lexical Collocational Competence of Arab Undergraduate EFL Learners

Mobile pronunciation applications significantly improve non-native Saudi English majors' skills in learning vowels, particularly short vowels.

Effectiveness of Mobile Learning in Enhancing Saudi English Majors’ Skills in Learning Vowels

Saudi undergraduate student-translators struggle with translating English word + preposition collocations to Arabic, often making substitutions, adding or deleting prepositions, and relying on local dialect usage.

Undergraduate Student-Translators’ Difficulties in Translating English Word + Preposition Collocations to Arabic

The Effectiveness of Dictionaries in Learning Collocations: A Study on Saudi English Majors

These studies suggest that while Saudi English majors recognize the importance of dictionaries and prefer digital ones for convenience, they face challenges in using them effectively for learning collocations, and corpus-based activities may offer better results.