Yentri Anggeraini, Abdurrachman Faridi, Januarius Mujiyanto, Dwi Anggani Linggar Bharati
Providing digital tools such computer, internet connection, online teaching media in the EFL classroom is not something new. It becomes a need that should be fulfilled to support the teaching and learning process in this digital era. Digital literacy in school practice is the ability to apply digital technology effectively to support digital teaching. The focus of the digital teaching age is not only on the learning facilities, internet access, and online resourses, but also on the readiness of the teachers to be literate in digital technology becomes the most important thing in order to face the digital teaching. This paper aims at exploring the teachers` perceptions on their digital literacy in EFL classroom. The findings showed that English the teachers provided digital tools and online teaching, used social media, and evaluated the downloaded materials and online resources. It can be concluded that the most of the teacher have average category in basic digital literacy competence and intermediate digital literacy competence in which 54% of them have very low ability to guide others in operating a new application dealing with teaching media, 77% teachers have very low ability to create application dealing with teaching, and 84% teachers have high ability to use social media (facebook, whatsup, twitter, etc) in teaching. © 2019 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
