Digitalization: Improving the Literacy of Foreign Language Learners through Multimodal Texts

Abstract

The development of teaching materials is one of the most important elements that can support the quality of the learning process, including foreign language learning. In contrast to technological developments, teaching materials for Arbeit am Text courses studied by students at Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) are still conventional and have not received sufficient attention for a long time. On the other hand, the course that focuses on German reading skills has an important goal, namely, to improve student literacy. Therefore, this study aims to develop multimodal-based teaching materials for Arbeit am Text courses. In this research and development, researchers used the ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation). Questionnaire sheets were delivered to the material expert as well as to the media expert to earn product validity. Besides, e-questionnaires were also filled out by students, users of the teaching materials arranged. Finally, the results show that the digital teaching materials composed in this research can be used in the learning process. It is believed that by utilizing them, pupils would experience not only an attractive but also an impressive learning process. The new materials, which are concise and accessible, allow them to study anytime and everywhere easily.