Graduates’ Digital Information Literacy: The Case Of M2 Students At The University Of Mouloud Mammeri, Tizi-ouzou

Résumé: With the new information landscape and the new technologies that have transformed the way we learn and communicate new skills and competencies are required from students and researchers to complete their academic projects. The present study aims to identify the research processes of graduate students as they complete their final-year M2 dissertations in the Department of English at Mouloud MAMMERI University. More particularly, it aims at evaluating graduates’ ability to determine access, evaluate, and use information ethically and legally. To guide our research, we advance the following research questions: How do M2 students search for information online and offline, including their use of various search strategies and resources? How do M2 students search for and utilize information, including their use of various search strategies and resources? We hypothesize that second year master’s students use a combination of online search engines, academic databases, and offline resources like libraries and textbooks. Moreover, they effectively use information from diverse resources to support their research. The present research relies on the ACRL (Associationof College, National, and University Libraries) model of information literacy skills to achieve these goals. Data was collected through a questionnaire administered to 52 graduate students in the Department of English, at Mouloud MAMMERI university. The findings of the present research corroborate previous studies (Brabazon, 2016; Davis,2013) and reveal that Master’s students face many challenges when filtering and using online and offline sources for their academic research. More specifically, students lack techniques and strategies to find academic references and have insufficient knowledge about which citations to include in their dissertations. Accordingly, the study has pedagogical implications in that it points to the need to enhance graduates ’information literacy skills by means of more innovative teaching tools and methods.

Publié dans la revue: مجلة الآداب و العلوم الإجتماعية