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In this study, it was aimed to determine the impact of using digital stories in teaching proverbs and idioms to primary school students. In the study, a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental research design with a control group was preferred. The sample of the study was created by 86 second-grade students who studied in a primary school in the Erzurum province in the 2021-2022 academic year. The semi-experimental process was completed in a total of 5 weeks with a 3-week teaching program and 2-week test application. During this time, the experiment group was taught proverbs and idioms through digital stories. The control group was taught with the traditional straight narrative. The study data were collected using the “Family and Child Information Form”, where the demographics of the students, and the “Proverb and Idioms Success Test”, which was developed by the researcher. The data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0, and G-power 3.1 statistical package programs. Analysis was done using power analysis, descriptive statistics, dependent sample t-test, independent sample t-test, chi-square test, and Kuder-Richardson’s-20 test. In the study, it was determined that there was a significant increase in the course of the experiment group between Proverbs and Idioms Success Test scores of students in the experiment and control group following the application of digital story-based proverbs and idioms teaching. According to the results of the research, the use of digital stories in the teaching of proverbs and idioms was found to provide students with a better learning and understanding of the subject.

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