Impact of the digital didactic material on students’ reading and grammar acquisition

Abstract

The present study utilized Digital Didactic Material, namely: Grammarly, Kahoot!, LyricsTraining, Qr Codes, Quizalize, Quizizz, Quizlet, and Storybird to teach EFL (English as a Foreign Language) namely reading comprehension and grammar formation. This study also aimed at investigating the learners’acceptance toward this material. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, 37 university students of two general English language courses attending classes in the Language Institute at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador, participated in a pre-experimental design. The experimental results indicated that students’ reading and grammar acquisition outperformed significatively after employing the Digital Didactic Material (p ˂.05). Moreover, students showed a positive attitude to this material as well as its use in teaching reading comprehension and grammar structure. The findings of this study have implications for L2 learners, encouraging them to change their view of reading and grammar acquisition and looking at these from a more motivating perspective.