An Analysis of EFL Students’ Digital Literacy Competence

Abstract

In the modern era as it is today, technology is increasingly advanced and growing rapidly. Students must certainly have digital literacy skills in facing this fast-changing era. Digital literacy has a lot of coverage to which the students can use it as a media and learning resource. This research aimed to investigate the profile of the EFL students’ digital literacy competence. The research method used was case study with qualitative approach. The population in this study were the students of the English Education Study Program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Cirebon in the 4th semester, totaling 21 people. The research sample taken were 12 people. The data were collected by using observation, digital literacy competence questionnaire, and unstructured interview. The result showed that in general the respondents were categorized as having good competence in the aspects of ICT literacy and media literacy. Meanwhile, in the aspect of information literacy the respondents were in the acceptable category. Furthermore, based on the results of data analysis of the interview results, it was found that even though they were good in the two aspects of digital literacy, and acceptable in competence of information literacy, they confessed that they tended not to practice the competence of ICT literacy in learning activities.