tojde Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 1302-6488 Anadolu University 10.17718/tojde.1360065 Lifelong learning Hayat Boyu Öğrenme INFORMAL DIGITAL LEARNING OF ENGLISH TO SUPPORT A FORMAL SPEAKING COURSE: EFL PRESERVICE TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION IDEAS https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1574-6070 Kusuma I Putu Indra Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5487-1483 Dewi Ni Luh Putu Eka Sulistya Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2499-3655 Paramartha A.a. Gede Yudha Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha 10 01 2024 25 4 244 259 10 02 2023 01 02 2024 Copyright © 2000, Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education 2000 Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

This study aimed at exploring how English as a foreign language (hereafter, EFL) preservice teacher (hereafter, PSTs) who had no teaching experience perceived Informal Digital Learning of English (hereafter, IDLE) and their IDLE implementation ideas for their future students’ out-of-class activities to support formal classroom instruction. The researchers employed a basic qualitative design to understand the participants’ perceptions and implementation ideas. The data were gathered through interviews and document analysis, and subsequently, 14 EFL PSTs with no prior teaching experience were recruited using a purposive sampling strategy. The data were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using inductive thematic analysis. The findings give new insights that the participants had positive perceptions towards IDLE and had various implementation ideas of IDLE for their future students, mostly through disrupting Web 2.0 technology tools, even though they had no teaching experience using technology. Two implications for English educators and teacher education programs are highlighted in this article: changing teachers’ mindsets towards EFL learning and the insertion of IDLE as a topic into pedagogy courses.

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