Promoting Students’ Intercultural Awareness Through Digital Storytelling in EFL Challenging Interactions

Voices from Digital Native Teachers in Secondary School Contexts

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10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Digital native teacher; Digital storytelling; EFL challenging interaction; Intercultural awareness

ABSTRACT

Digital literacy has been an emerging and increasing topic in ELT, with numerous studies conducted to explore how digital-mediated tasks promote students’ critical awareness of cultural realities. This study explores how digital native secondary school teachers implement digital storytelling in EFL challenging interactions. The study examines the pedagogical approaches used by digital native teachers to stimulate students’ intercultural awareness in EFL challenging interactions. The study participants were identified based on a test to predict the strengths of some attributes of digital nativeness proposed by Teo’s Digital Native Assessment Scale. Six teachers identified as digital native teachers volunteered to participate in the study. The data were gathered from interviews, online group discussions, and students’ artifacts. The interviews were administered in the initial process of the study to get the teachers’ understanding of digital storytelling and intercultural teaching. Results indicated that teachers’ digital nativity contributes to their theoretical approach to intercultural communication in promoting students’ intercultural awareness in EFL challenging interactions. Digital intercultural pedagogy is highly proposed to be included in the Indonesian secondary EFL curriculum. Therefore, the EFL curriculum development at all levels in Indonesia is suggested to adapt to diverse sociolinguistic contexts and various multicultural backgrounds.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fitri Agustin
AU  - Fazri Nur Yusuf
AU  - Sri Setyarini
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - Promoting Students’ Intercultural Awareness Through Digital Storytelling in EFL Challenging Interactions
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 197
EP  - 205
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_30
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-91-6_30
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