The Use of Audiobooks as Part of Digital Literacies in Indonesian Students’ Perception

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211021.004How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Audiobooks, Digital Literacies, EFL, Indonesia, MALL

Abstract

The emerging concept of digital literacy has much contended nowadays. High or low technologies support varied applications and tools in the EFL context to facilitate teaching and learning English activities. The requirement to improve the capability and be up to date with the newest Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is crucial, including for Indonesian students. Learning a foreign language is an integrated process of the four language skills. That integration can be blended and modified using technology, such as Audiobooks in extensive reading activities classes. This qualitative study was conducted to explore the students’ perception of using Audiobooks to vary the learning media that the students can access. There were twenty random students at the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education were selected as participants. A set of open-ended questionnaires was distributed, and then five samples were chosen to join an in-depth interview session for acquiring detailed results. A content analysis was used to analyze the responses of the participants. The students mentioned the use of audiobooks was a breakthrough in reading and improving listening skills at the same time. The students also mentioned that they had some challenges while listening to the audiobooks; however, they could find good solutions and even shared their thought on certain points about this activity.

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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  - Asmi Rusmanayanti
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/23
TI  - The Use of Audiobooks as Part of Digital Literacies in Indonesian Students’ Perception
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education, Language, Literature, and Arts (ICELLA 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 20
EP  - 29
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211021.004
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211021.004
ID  - Rusmanayanti2021
ER  -