Title:
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BECOMING STORYTELLERS: IMPROVING ESL STUDENTS ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT AND 21ST CENTURY SKILLS THROUGH INTERACTIVE DIGITAL STORYTELLING |
Author(s):
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Annalisa Raffone and Johanna Monti |
ISBN:
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978-989-8533-93-7 |
Editors:
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Demetrios G. Sampson, Dirk Ifenthaler, Pedro Isaías and Maria Lidia Mascia |
Year:
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2019 |
Edition:
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Single |
Keywords:
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Digital Storytelling, CALL, Collaborative Learning, Constructivism, ESL, 21st Century Skills |
Type:
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Full Paper |
First Page:
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159 |
Last Page:
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166 |
Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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21st Century education is rapidly changing due to the emerging of new media technologies that provide easy access to a
great amount of information.
Accordingly, as todays students are immersed in a technological society, they need to be equipped with the skills
necessary to interpret, synthesize and produce new information. Thus, todays educators and researchers face the
challenge of making students become skillful users of new technologies so to increase their motivation and engagement
by also improving their learning outcomes.
In particular, in the context of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), using technology appropriately could be a valuable
approach to create a meaningful learning context where the acquisition of language and literacy skills is accompanied by
that of digital skills.
To that end, Digital Storytelling (DST) seems to perfectly embody and meet the various educational needs of todays
students because due to its dynamic feature of combining traditional storytelling with a variety of digital multimedia it
provides opportunities for the improvement of learning skills including cooperative learning, motivation, and
engagement.
In the light of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning), Collaborative Learning (CL), and the Constructivist
Paradigm (CP), this paper aims at addressing the potential of Interactive Digital Storytelling in enhancing ESL (English
as a Second Language) students academic engagement and 21st Century Skills.
Therefore, this paper describes the implementation of DST at LOrientale University of Naples with 24 ESL students
involving qualitative and quantitative methods of collecting data. Results showed that DST enhanced students
engagement with their studies and the reinforcement of their digital skills. |
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