Digital Literacy and Academic Presentation Strategies of Foreign Graduate Students

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the effect of foreign graduate students’ digital literacy competency on their performance of academic presentation strategies in a digital literacy environment. For digital literacy, Shin So-young and Lee Seung-hee’s (2019) “basic work utilization ability” measurement tool was used, and academic presentation strategy was measured by the internal consistency between the questions by modifying or supplementing the types and questions of Lee Da-heom and Kim Jihyun (2022). First, the digital literacy capacity of foreign graduate students is less sufficient than that of Korean graduate students. Second, foreign graduate students lack the ability to perform presentations using academic presentation strategies than Korean graduate students. Specifically, it was confirmed that foreign graduate student lacked the ability to perform presentations using strategies in the stage of presentation progress compared to Korean graduate students. Third, as the digital literacy of foreign graduate students improves, the academic presentation strategy can also improve. This study is meaningful in that the results confirmed that digital literacy is a necessary competency for successful academic presentations by foreign graduate students.