Digital Literacy in an EFL Classroom: Does Dynamic Assessment Benefit from the Literacy?
Subject Areas : Journal of Applied Linguistics Studies
Mohammadreza Raeisi
1
,
Davood Mashhadi Heidar
2
,
Mohammadreza Khodareza
3
1 - Department of English, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
2 - Department of English, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
3 - Department of English, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
Keywords: Dynamic Assessment, Classroom Interaction, information literacy, digital literacy,
Abstract :
The study aimed to investigate the application of Digital Literacy to Lexical and grammatical accuracy of Iranian EFL learners and determine whether dynamic assessors could benefit from the literacy. Accordingly, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the ways in which young students are developing computer and information literacy (CIL) to support their capacity to participate in the digital age. Further, this study explored the mediating role of teachers’ digital literacy between educational strategy use and dynamic assessment. The participants of the study, 230 young adult-male and female EFL teachers aged between 22 to 42 years old at different language institutes in several cities of Mazandaran province, Iran, were selected based on a snowball sampling method and were delivered two questionnaires. Following a multiple case study design to addresses the characteristics, and major cases of strategy use for teachers. Therefore, the paper used qualitative methods to gather data. The major advantage of multiple case research lies in cross-case analysis and changes the focus from realizing a single case to the differences and similarities between views. Finally, the results revealed that the social practices of literacy change due to the use of digital technologies. The findings provide further attitude into understanding how to probe the purposes where they have been formed and used in conceptualizing digital literacy
