Abstract

Nowadays, the most current learning is designed under a ubiquitous learning approach (onsite and outside; synchronous and asynchronous) since information is multimodal and global. To do so, digital literacy, which evolves with technological advances, is required. In applied linguistics, digital literacy is about understanding and using multimodal information, presented by computers (Gilster, 1997). This proposal aims at presenting a quantitative and qualitative bibliographic systematic review concerning the advances in digital and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) skills, using the academic literature registered in the databases Web of Science and Scopus from the period 1997-2020. The findings confirmed that growing innovations in pedagogy corresponded with technologies in Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and collaborative ubiquitous EFL education. Moreover, this review addressed that the evolution of digital literacy in applied linguistics encourages multimodal active learning approaches that help EFL learners to build and communicate knowledge successfully and internationally.

Presenters

Soraya García-Sánchez
Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Literacies Learning

KEYWORDS

UBIQUITOUS LEARNING, DIGITAL SKILLS, ENGLISH LANGUAGE, SCOPUS, WEB OF SCIENCE

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