http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/6445 2026-04-25T11:26:07Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/8383 Investigating the impact of digital textbooks on students’ digital literacy Sugiarto, Bambang Ruby The integration of digital textbooks in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom has become more common, particularly as digital literacy grows in importance for 21st-century learners. While many digital learning tools are available, there is limited research that closely examines how digital textbooks contribute to students’ digital literacy development in real classroom practice, especially in EFL contexts. This study aimed to explore how the use of digital textbooks contributes to students’ digital literacy development in EFL learning from both student and teacher perspectives. A qualitative case study was conducted involving classroom observations and semi-structured interviews with students and an English teacher. The analysis was guided by Hague and Payton’s digital literacy framework by covering eight aspects: functional skills, creativity, critical thinking and evaluation, cultural and social understanding, collaboration, ability to find and select information, effective communication, and safeguarding. The findings indicated that digital textbooks supported several aspects of digital literacy, particularly functional skills, information selection, and critical evaluation. However, certain aspects, such as creativity and safeguarding, were less frequently observed. The study concludes that digital textbooks have the potential to foster digital literacy in EFL settings, but their effectiveness depends on how actively features are utilized and supported through guided classroom practices. 2026-01-18T00:00:00Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/8382 Haling ku Aing: A Multimodal Pragmatics Analysis of Sundanese Cultural Values on A Tiktok Video Sugiarto, Bambang Ruby In a swiftly globalizing world, the traditional values of the Sundanese, profoundly ingrained in the populace of West Java, Indonesia, are in jeopardy of being disregarded by subsequent generations. This study seeks to investigate the pragmatic implications of Sundanese values expressed through TikTok videos, with particular emphasis on content tagged #wayanggolek that showcases traditional wayang golek (wooden puppet) performances. The study used a digital multimodal pragmatics approach to examine the interaction of verbal and visual aspects, elucidating how these components collectively convey Sundanese cultural values. The corpus comprises video data chosen for its cultural importance and aesthetic value. The results demonstrate a complex, multimodal interaction in which visual symbols, textual overlays, and background converge to form a nuanced depiction of Sundanese ideals, effectively engaging viewers in a culturally relevant and accessible manner. The examination reveals essential concepts such as proactivity, politeness, initiative, humility, and resilience. We argue that the engagement within TikTok's digital realm facilitates a dynamic, contemporary conveyance of cultural identity. The results underscore the capacity of social media platforms to preserve and advance cultural legacy via interactive, multimodal material, thereby strengthening identity and communal values within a dispersed audience. Other researchers could enhance this study's approach to create advanced frameworks for multimodal pragmatics that consider the swiftly evolving dynamics of digital media, including interactive audience features and platform-specific affordances. 2025-12-11T00:00:00Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/8381 Beyond algorithmic control: decolonizing Sundanese cultural sovereignty on TikTok Sugiarto, Bambang Ruby In an era where algorithms shape visibility and cultural value, Indigenous expression risks being flattened into consumable spectacle. Yet across TikTok’s volatile terrain, Sundanese creators transform virality into a medium of ethical reworlding. This study examines how TikTok videos tagged #PapatahSunda (Sundanese Proverbs) perform acts of cultural and epistemic sovereignty through multimodal discourse. Drawing on Cultural Discourse Studies (CDS) and framed by Epistemologies of the South, the analysis interprets five representative videos as digital moral performances: Wayang Golek as discursive archive, Maung Bodas as visual ethics, Indung as emotional pedagogy, Bapa as reflective wisdom, and Pawon as domestic moral space. These videos remix ancestral values of humility, resilience, and balance into algorithmic form, converting TikTok’s affective logics into moral infrastructures. By embedding Sundanese worldviews within global digital aesthetics, creators resist epistemic homogenization and assert that Indigenous discourse remains a living, world-making force. The study repositions TikTok from a site of distraction to a vernacular moral archive, demonstrating that cultural sovereignty can flourish even within the architectures of algorithmic control. 2026-01-15T00:00:00Z