As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes embedded in daily life--from employment and education to healthcare and public services--AI literacy is emerging as both a civic competency and a human right. Yet second language learners, particularly from immigrant and marginalized communities, are often excluded from systems not designed for linguistic…

Pedagogy and education in the English language have experienced a transformative impact with the integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This dynamic combination has enhanced instructional strategies, fostered interactive learning environments, and equipped learners with essential digital literacy skills (DLS). Integrating…

In addition to identifying crucial areas of lecturers' digital leadership that can be improved to enhance students' various engagement in language learning, the goal of this study is to investigate the relationships between various dimensions of lecturers' digital leadership and students' behavioral, emotional, and cognitive engagement in language…

The importance of integrating technologies into second/foreign language (L2) education has garnered increasing attention among scholars in the past decade. It has been exponentially highlighted that L2 educators need to become digitally literate to succeed in the digital world. However, research on the contribution of English as a foreign language…

While artificial intelligence in language learning has garnered extensive research attention, the specific roles of motivation and digital literacy (DL) in shaping students' self-regulated language learning within AI remain largely unexplored. Based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB), this study endeavoured to understand how learning…

The UNICEF-Akelius Digital Learning Initiative ('the Initiative') is one of the largest and longest-standing digital learning initiatives implemented by UNICEF. Launched in 2018 and continuing through 2024, this initiative spans various educational settings across 12 countries. Its primary focus is to improve education outcomes through digital…

The past decades witness an ongoing interest in reconceptualizing writing as digital multimodal composing (DMC). The emergence of language and multimodal generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools leads to new forms of DMC processes and products. Yet prior studies have mostly examined non-GAI-assisted DMC, and few have explored how…

The purpose of this study was to provide recommendations to solve the problem of a lack of computer skills among Canadian Language Benchmark (CLB) 4 and 5 learners at the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) Center. The problem was that CLB 4 and 5 learners do not have basic computer skills. When the school switched to online mode…

Purpose: This study explores how the integration of digital technology in Islamic education impacts primary school students' learning, from the perspective of Islamic education teachers. It aims is to highlight the potential benefits of digital integration in the classroom and to address the gaps between Islamic education teachers' perceptions and…

This article analyses a specific strategy designed to include generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools in students' written assignments. While we recognise that GenAI tools represent a challenge for teachers in terms of their classroom use and the development of digital literacy among students, we believe that banning them is not a viable…

The paper calls into question the development of the digital competence of future philologists, taking into account the Turkish and Ukrainian experiences. The study of digital competence development is attracting increasing interest due to a growing need for experts capable of processing the enormous streams of continuously transmitted information…

This article reports an empirical study on embedding digital literacies in the language teacher education curriculum with pre-service and in-service teachers enrolled in a graduate-level language teaching method course. Two different types of technology-mediated collaborative tasks were implemented, one being collaborative reading for writing…

The study explored the educational potential of the application of student-generated digital visual content for learning English as a second language (ESL) by undergraduate students enrolled in the course Foreign Language which is actually Introduction to Legal English. This study used a mixed-methods approach. The researchers designed a…

During the past two decades, technology-mediated task-based language teaching (TMTBLT) has received great attention among scholars and practitioners in the EFL context. However, exploring the perceptions of teachers and students enacting TMTBLT in EFL teaching from the dimensions of various tasks and English skills remains under-explored. To fill…

This article offers a rigorous and forward-looking examination of contemporary research directions and transformative trends within the fields of TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) and TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language). Positioned at the intersection of rapidly evolving technologies, innovative pedagogies, and…