EFL teachers’ digital literacy and its relation to self-efficacy and well-being in artificial intelligence-based context

• Autores: Xiaoyan Zhao, Suthagar Narasuman, Wenxuan Ren
• Localización: Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras, ISSN 1697-7467, Nº. Extra 13, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Integrating Innovative Technologies into Technology-Assisted Language Learning (TALL) Environments: Insights, Applications, and Impacts), págs. 391-408
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.30827/portalin.viXIII.33041
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  • Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) in academic contexts has emerged as an innovative approach to improve language teaching. Digital literacy can act as a possible protection for educators when facing the challenges posed by AI-based experiences. This research explores the interaction between digital literacy, self-efficacy, and well-being among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educators in an AI-based context. Based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the study investigates how digital literacy meets the fundamental psychological requirements of EFL educators for competence, autonomy, and relatedness, which in turn affects their well-being and self-efficacy. To reach this aim, 341 EFL teachers attended and answered the three scales but among them, 319 valid questionnaires were gathered. A Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approach was used to analyze the causal relationships among the variables. The findings reveal a significant positive correlation between well-being, self-efficacy, and digital literacy. Indeed, digital literacy was a significant predictor of both variables and could predict 21.5% of the variance in teacher efficacy and 8.1% of the variance in well-being. The research highlights the critical role of digital literacy in enabling EFL educators and fostering a supportive, efficient, and satisfying AI-based teaching perspective.

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  • The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of Guangdong Higher Education Association's 14th Five Year Plan for 2023 Higher Education...