This study is aimed at finding out the views and attitudes of high school students inrngeneral, and grade II students in particular, toward the use of MLD as one independent and self studyrnsource of linguistic in formation in the process of learning EFL. In other words, it tries tornexplore and describe the various uses of MLD and see how much of these pieces of pedagogicrninformation is recognized and exploited by grade II students. In short, the study tries to answerrnthe question, "To what extent do high school students benefit from the MLD."rnTo do thi s, three types of instruments were employed: A test of practical usewf arndicti onary, questionnaires and an observation. A class of30 randomly se lected students and 20rnEnglish teachers from 6 different schools were also invovled in the study. The test whichrncomprises 30 items on the various uses of the dictionary was administered to the 30 students. Thernquestionnaires which also try to elicit views and opinions of the teachers and students regardingrnthe role of MLD in learning EFL were distributed to both subjects. The third type ofrninstrument--{)observation, was made to see how quick or slow the students were in finding a wordrnin the dictionary. In doing the test and the activity (task) for observation, the students werernprovided with the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English.rnThe instruments were collected and analysed by converting the responses into percentagernfigures. Comparisons were made between the responses of the students to all items subsumed inrnthe instruments to see the effectiveness ofthe students in using the dicitonary.rnThe results obtained showed that the students are not generally .. good at using therndictionary for wide range of information. The results also indicated that there are no initiativesrnfrom English teachers to coach students how to make an effective use of the MLD.rnIt is, therefore, recommended that teachers, syllabus designers and material writers shouldrntake remedial measure to broaden the view of students to the use of MLD by integrating differentrntasks that call for dictionary skills.