SITI NURUL AZKIYAH (UIN SYARIF HIDAYATULLAH JAKARTA)

ENGLISH TEACHERS’ MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY SKILLS: HOW GOOD THEY PERCEIVE THEIR LITERACY AND PRIORITIES OF IMPROVEMENT THEY CONSIDER : DIGITAL LITERACIES/LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TECHNOLOGY

Media and Information Literacy (MIL) concerns understanding, analyzing, and evaluating today’s increasingly complex environment so one can equally communicate and participate in a borderless world and an increasingly digital society. English classes are believed to significantly contribute to developing students’ MIL skills. Therefore, this paper addresses how good English teachers perceive their understanding of some basic knowledge and skills of MIL and what they perceive to be priorities of improvement and their strategies, represented by ten closed questions and three open questions regarding information literacy, media literacy, and digital literacy. The closed questions were measured using three Likert scales: needs to be developed, partially developed, and well-developed. At the same time, the open one invited teachers to indicate improvement priorities and their strategies. 788 English teachers (F: 497; M: 291) in Madrasah throughout Indonesia voluntarily participated in the study. Using a questionnaire in a survey research design, the descriptive analysis of this study reveals that most English female teachers considered themselves to have partially developed nine out of ten MIL skills. In contrast, only in one MIL skill did they view themselves as having developed it well. Unlike this, English male teachers viewed themselves as having developed five MIL skills well, whereas the remaining five skills were considered partially developed.

Prof. Siti Nurul Azkiyah, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer at the Department of English Education, the Faculty of Educational Sciences, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta, where she is currently serving as the Dean of her faculty. She finished her bachelor's degree in English Education from the State University of Malang, Indonesia, continued her master’s degree at the University of York, UK, and completed her doctoral degree at the University of Groningen, NL.