Enhancing Indonesian EFL Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Digital Literacy Project

Deny Efita Nur Rakhmawati, Mira Shartika, Lina Hanifiyah

2018

Abstract

Misunderstanding during communication, especially with learners from different cultural backgrounds, might happen easily in this digital era. However, it could be avoided by having intercultural communicative competence. This study, therefore, was intended to examine EFL learners’ intercultural communicative competence through a Digital Literacy Project. It employed a descriptive qualitative design as it analyzed the learners’ intercultural communicative competence through non-numerical data. The project involved 25 EFL learners taking Interculturality in Language and Literary Studies subject in one of the Islamic universities in Malang, Indonesia, in 2018 academic year. The data were taken from their interpretation reported in the video and from the questionnaires (reflection sheets). After taking the data, it was revealed that through this digital literacy project, learners’ intercultural communicative competence were increasing, as most of them were understanding of intercultural relationships through others’ experiences and experiencing situations similar to what their peers had. They were also able to position others in no different place from themselves, which indicated that they had had higher intercultural communicative competence.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nur Rakhmawati D., Shartika M. and Hanifiyah L. (2018). Enhancing Indonesian EFL Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Digital Literacy Project.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1825-1831. DOI: 10.5220/0009936018251831

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Deny Efita Nur Rakhmawati and Mira Shartika and Lina Hanifiyah},
title={Enhancing Indonesian EFL Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Digital Literacy Project},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1825-1831},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009936018251831},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Enhancing Indonesian EFL Learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Digital Literacy Project
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Nur Rakhmawati D.
AU - Shartika M.
AU - Hanifiyah L.
PY - 2018
SP - 1825
EP - 1831
DO - 10.5220/0009936018251831