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The field of language learning and English literacy education has been revolutionized by increasingly developing technology. Innovative and digital literacies have been given birth to English literacy education in the digital arena. Being accessible to the online network website helps expand the production and consumption of international digital citizens. With the access to the internet, these new products and consumption of popular culture have enabled the recent birth of innovative forms of English literacy in English as a foreign language (EFL) settings for tertiary level students as this cohort of students are digital generations who spend lots of time online. So numerous English educators and linguists have turned their attention to the significance of these internet cultures pertinent to English literacy education. The most popular culture being studied by literacy scholars is online fan-fiction in English literacy education. This conceptual paper aims to explore the potential of the utilization of online fan-fiction and how it impacts English literacy education in EFL settings and provide the teaching instructions of using online fan-fiction for EFL learners in virtual English literacy classrooms during the pandemic of Covid-19.
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To Cite this Article: Zhai, X., Liu, C., & Razali, A. B. (2021). Utilization of Online Fan-fiction to Improve English Literacy Skills among EFL Undergraduate Students. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 10(4), 139–146.
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