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ERIC Number: EJ1353049
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0958-8221
EISSN: EISSN-1744-3210
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Digital Storytelling as an Interdisciplinary Project to Improve Students' English Speaking and Creative Thinking
Yang, Ya-Ting Carolyn; Chen, Yi-Chien; Hung, Hsiu-Ting
Computer Assisted Language Learning, v35 n4 p840-862 2022
The present research examined the effectiveness of digital storytelling (DST) on foreign language learners' English speaking and creative thinking. In this study, DST was realized in the form of an interdisciplinary project integrated in a partnership between an English course and a computer course, with the class time of the former devoted to the content design and that of the latter to the multimedia design of learner-generated digital stories. The participants were required to work in small groups to create their digital stories in the target language, English, under an eight-week interdisciplinary curriculum. A two-group quasi-experiment with a pretest and posttest design was then conducted to compare the participants' learning outcomes. The findings reveal the authentic and meaningful learning opportunities that DST has to offer for effectively fostering the students' development of becoming proficient English speakers and creative thinkers. Future implementations on interdisciplinary DST projects are thus recommended for educators.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 7; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Taiwan
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking
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