English as Foreign Language Students’ Understanding and Knowledge of Critical Digital Literacy

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210427.064How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Critical literacy, critical digital literacy, digital literacy, English as a foreign language

Abstract

The rapid dissemination of information through the printing press has shifted in the 21st century as the digital text has become so widespread. In this century, the text comes from various modalities, ranging from traditional texts to technology-based texts. Students are expected to develop a high level of digital use. The challenge of preparing students to be successful, full participants in today’s digital society faces all teaches. However, in English as a foreign language country, the current technology instruction system in education mainly concerns on functional technology skills, and critical and reflective components are mostly absent, especially in language education. The present study was conducted to investigate the EFL students’ understanding and knowledge of critical digital literacy at the university level in Indonesia. The twenty EFL students from different universities became part of this study. An open-ended online questionnaire was given to them to be analysed inductively in this study in collecting the data. The findings showed that these study participants do not fully know and understand what critical digital literacy is. However, they believe that critical digital literacy will provide them with provisions in the present and future. Therefore, as the recommendation, the socialization related to “critical digital literacy” must be encouraged to have a great generation in this era.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Raden Aulia Utami Hidayat
AU  - Didi Suherdi
AU  - Pupung Purnawarman
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - English as Foreign Language Students’ Understanding and Knowledge of Critical Digital Literacy
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 422
EP  - 427
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.064
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.064
ID  - Hidayat2021
ER  -