Benefits and challenges of using electronic textbooks in teaching English in high schools in Dong Thap province

Abstract

This descriptive quantitative study is aimed to investigate the EFL teachers’ perceptions of using e-textbooks at high schools in Dong Thap province: what they perceived in terms of the benefits and challenges in using the digital version of the current textbooks. The data were collected through thirty-five Likert scale items and two open questions in the form of online questionnaire from 155 EFL teachers in Dong Thap province. These teachers agreed that using e-textbooks is not only convenient for them in teaching but it also has positive effects on enhancing learners’ English vocabulary and pronunciation and language development thanks to the vivid interactive features of the digital version of the current textbooks.