Application of E-books and ERP and its Impacts on EFL Under Graduate Students’ Reading Attitudes.

The electronic books, offer the educational society an additional medium or tool of instructions that can enhance the learning process. The aim of this paper is to find the impacts of e-books application in an extensive reading program (ERP). For this purpose,۱۱۵ students were selected from Science and Art University in Yazd. They were selected from three different classes from English Majors. A twelve-week extensive reading program of e-books was designed for the selected participants. For each class, some sites and a list of e-books were introduced. The participants were encouraged to read e-book after their University schedule. Data was collected through Stokmans’s Reading Attitude questionnaire, observation, and feedback. feedback taken, was oral and written and were analyzed to be triangulated with the quantitative data. Before and after the e-book extensive reading program the degree of changes in reading attitude was evaluated by applying Reading Attitude Scale (Stokmans, ۱۹۹۹. The outcome revealed a meaningful positive impact of e-books on the students’ attitudinal changes. This attitudinal change was noticed in all four dimensions of reading attitudes that is utility, development, enjoyment, and escape, and there were also changes in all the cognitive, affective and conative components. In addition, the results indicated oral reading, music, and animation, which are the features of e-books had a significant impact on attitudinal changes.

Keywords:

E-books , EFL , extensive reading , reading attitudes , reading program