Influence of the keynote e-book on the EFL skills of the A2 level students at Universidad Iberoamericana del Ecuador

Abstract

In order to develop the EFL skills of students at Universidad Iberoamericana del Ecuador (UNIB.E), 
there was a necessity to change the EFL material for another that offered innovative ideas for 
the students and teachers to interact more and for them not to be limited to the traditional book 
methods that are mainly focused in the use of grammar. As a consequence, it was implemented 
the use of Keynote e-book that works with the Keynote online platform. The use of this e-book 
started to show meaningful changes in the students’ communication skills, which is the reason why 
it was feasible to carry out a study about the influence of the new method on the A2 level students 
EFL skills. Therefore, the objective of this research is to compare the academic performance of the 
students in different semesters and determine the influence of the use of the e-book on the EFL 
skills of the students of A2 level at UNIB.E. It is essential to apply methods according to the new 
era, since the traditional methods are not related to the today’s times. In Ecuador, students are 
encouraged to ask questions instead of expressing their opinions and producing by themselves and 
use English in real contexts, so this new method gave learners the opportunity to experience English 
in meaningful situations, however it only could be reached through the use of online tools to make 
students participate, interact, and practice better . Therefore, by means of the use of this e-book, 
students and teachers can create a new class environment that allows learners communicating 
and developing fluency. This quantitative applied the observation of the English lessons by using a 
classroom observation evaluation, the pre-post estimation model, comparative statistics about the 
evaluations and grades obtained by the students in five semesters as well.