The 5 th UAD TEFL International Conference (5 th UTIC) ISBN 978-623-6071-02-1 Eastparc Hotel, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2019 227 10.12928/utic%202019.v2.5763.2019 http://seminar.uad.ac.id/index.php/utic utic@uad.ac.id Contemporary online Indonesian folk literature for 21 st century learners Dwi Indra Aprilliandari STKIP Muhammadiyah Bangka-Belitung, Jl. KH A Dahlan, Mangkol, Kec. Pangkalan Baru, Kab. Bangka Tengah, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung 33684, Indonesia dwi.indraaprilliandari@stkipmbb.ac.id 1. Introduction Literature is a wordy depiction of culture, while culture is an embodiment of habits, customs, social behavior, knowledge, and assumptions related to a society. Literature escalates ELT by using some elements such as authentic material, language, and cultural enrichment. Having cultural enrichment, literature leads to a wider and closer look at culture of the target language. Literature widens students’ vision and fosters students ‘critical thinking. It helps students see things from various perspectives since in reading a piece of literary work, they discuss events, characters that yield different interpretations. There are so many benefits from teaching literature to English Foreign Language (EFL) students. Those benefits are to encourage students’ creativity, build up imagination, enrich the vocabulary, and use them to learn and write how to use figurative language to make the writing more effective. There are many genres in literary works like folk literature which become the most popular written texts used to introduce literature to students. Folk literature includes drama, folktale, fable, legend, fairy tale, etc. folk literature is also known as an oral tradition, a story that delivers orally from one generation to generation. ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history Received 06 December 2019 Revised 11 March 2020 Accepted 10 August 2020 Available Online 15 January 2021 This research intends to acknowledge the advantages of contemporary online Indonesian folk literature for 21st century learners. The 21st century is a technology era where information can be spread faster and an internet connection is the most important thing to share all the information around the world. It is qualitative research which are aimed at revealing the use of Indonesian folk literature for Indonesian learners which learn English as a foreign language. There is still a lack of research about Indonesian folk literature for 21st century learners; therefore, this research is significant to be conducted. The finding of this research can be described as follows: First, contemporary online Indonesian folk literature is as an instructional media that combine the positive sides of traditional mode such as define, extract and deliver the moral values contain in literary works with technology use to keep, improve and engage the students’ interest to learn English but reminds to keep their culture roots. Second, technology improves the learners to combine the traditional and modern ways of learning. Third, 21st century skills help the learners to be able to compete in this era. This is an open access article under the CC–BY-SA license. Keywords Indonesian folk literature English foreign learner 21st century skills