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Publication Date: 2018-Dec
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This Is My Story: Latinx Learners Create Digital Stories during a Summer Literacy Camp
CastaƱeda, Martha E.; Shen, Xiang; Claros Berlioz, Esther M.
TESOL Journal, v9 n4 Dec 2018
Educators need to create opportunities to develop English language learners' (ELLs') language skills through creative multiliteracy projects, identify ways to avoid summer loss, and harness the potential of parental engagement. The authors propose the use of a creative digital storytelling (DST) project to achieve these goals. The present case study draws upon a new literacy perspective to examine the impact of a DST project on a group of Latinx students in a summer literacy camp. Through examining the process of designing their own family-inspired digital story, the present study investigates whether a DST workshop, taught within a multiliteracies framework, can (a) serve as a creative space to encourage language use, (b) foster multimodal communicative competence, and (c) engage parents during a summer literacy camp for Latinx students. Specifically, we take multiliteracies as the pedagogical foundation guiding the DST project.
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Literacy Education, Multiple Literacies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Case Studies, Workshops, Hispanic American Students, Teaching Methods, Story Telling, Program Descriptions, Creativity, Language Usage, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Skills, Parent Participation
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