Abstract:

In the context of smart education, digital textbooks represent a key element of textbook development. This study clarifies the concept of digital textbooks in tertiary foreign language teaching and identifies their core characteristics, including intelligent adaptation, cross-temporal and spatial interaction, multimodal interdisciplinary integration, and dynamic value shaping. Then based on an analysis of survey data, the study examines the status quo of tertiary digital textbooks and explores their development pathways from the dimensions of textbook compilation and review, selection, usage, evaluation, and research. The findings aim to provide references for future studies.

Key words: smart education, digital textbooks for foreign language education, connotation, status quo, pathway