The Impact Of Digital Platforms On Students Communicative Competence Of Iraqi Undergraduate EFL Students

Abstract

Digital platforms have been proved to play crucial role in enhancing students’ language learning. However, no study has investigated this phenomenon in Iraqi context. Thus, this study aimed to investigate the impact of digital platforms on enhancing students’ communicative competence. The study was conducted in the Iraq university. Iraqi second-year EFL undergraduate students formed the sample of the study. Fully qualitative research design was employed through using semi-structured interview, the interview protocol was validated by experts before demonstrating. Convenient sampling method was utilized to sample the students. The findings showed that digital platforms enhance students’ communicative competence in terms of grammar accuracy, pronunciation, vocabulary, cohesion and coherence, and spelling. This study contributes crucially to the limited EFL technology-based language learning literature.