Comparing The Use of Electronic Dictionary and Printed Dictionary on Writing Skill

Dictionary plays an important role in writing skill. Writing is difficult, when students have to think about what ideas they should write especially write in English which is not their native language. A qualitative approach with a semi structured way used in this research. There were ten participants, especially the 2018 PBI department, who have taken academic writing and there ten interview questions. The results of the research show that the advantages of dictionary were accessibility, faster and easy in looking up words and provide more educational resources. The disadvantages of electronic dictionary were internet connection problem and mistranslation. While the advantages of printed dictionary was accessible without internet. The disadvantages of printed dictionary were not easy to carry around and time consuming. The dictionary significantly affects students writing in terms of word choices and synonym & antonym.