Foundations of Digital Language Learning and Teaching: For EFL University Students
Abstract
Foundations of Digital Language Learning and Teaching: For EFL University Students is an introductory textbook in the Applied Linguistics branch of the English Language Studies for EFL University Students series. It is designed for international undergraduate EFL students and assumes no previous university course in the subject. Its fifteen chapters connect language learning principles, learner needs, digital literacies, and resource evaluation with online, blended, mobile, social, and informal learning. Further chapters examine vocabulary, grammar, the four language skills, artificial intelligence, assessment, task design, and responsible digital teaching. The book supports classroom teaching and independent study across approximately 35–45 contact hours, with additional time for reading and practice. It includes central questions, learning roadmaps, explanations, worked examples, guided activities, checks, five final tasks per chapter, explained answers, review infographics, a glossary, and a subject index. Learners evaluate resources, analyze teaching cases and small datasets, interpret feedback, and design accessible language tasks. Classroom cases and datasets are constructed for teaching unless a published source is identified; they are not presented as empirical findings about a population. AI-use disclosure: The textbook was developed with assistance from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and NotebookLM for research, drafting, revision, visual development, and production. The credits identify ChatGPT Images illustrations used in the covers, roadmaps, infographics, and additional teaching figures. Exact lettering, labels, numerical values, diagrams, and QR codes were composed with separate typesetting, diagramming, and encoding tools. Munassir Alhamami, the Project Director, is responsible for the final editorial decisions and released version. This is the First Edition, Version 1 (2026), provided as a free digital textbook. Except where otherwise stated, the original content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Material credited to other sources remains subject to the terms stated for that material. Readers should cite the source and identify adaptations. Series website: https://sites.google.com/view/els4efl/home
