Mavrommatidou Stavroula
Demociruts University of Thrace

S.I.E.D.U. (Strategy Inventory for Electronic Dictionary Use) is a valid and reliable electronic instrument designed for assessing users’ skills in electronic dictionary searches. It can be used for research purposes mainly for the detection of users’ profiles in order to design appropriateintervention programs in classrooms. In the present paper,it has been used for collecting empirical data onusers’ dictionary skills, which is an important but poorlyresearched topic in language learning contexts.700 people (students from high schools and universitiesas well asteachers) participated in the investigation and completed the online questionnaire S.I.E.D.U.,reflecting on their own digital dictionary use. It was found that not all users are familiar enough with the strategies required when using digital dictionariesand some of them lack the right skills to fully benefit from this useful source of information. In addition, there are differences in the skills applied by usersdepending on their level of education butnot between university students in different study fields.