Engaging English student teachers in a digital storytelling project for young learners

1st International Conference on Environmental Geography and Geography Education

生态环境科学;地球科学

Andayani, R.^1

Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Jember, Kalimantan Street 37, Jember, West Java, Indonesia^1

关键词: Class projects;    Digital storytelling;    English languages;    Language learning;    Software applications;    Student teachers;    Teaching and learning;    Technology Integration;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/243/1/012066/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/243/1/012066

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Storytelling is one of the effective ways in developing young learners' language skills. Previous studies have demonstrated the power of storytelling activities in providing the meaningful contexts for English student teachers to learn language while at the same time providing English student teachers with the language exposure in enhancing their listening competence. This paper reports on a seven-week class project in which English student teachers create a digital storytelling project to teach English for young learners. Participants were the English Language Education learners who take the English Storytelling course in the English for Young Learners optional course packages. Data showed that most of the English student teachers are successfully presenting digital stories. However, some English student teachers faced difficulties in producing pedagogically relevant recorded audio of the stories. Further, English student teachers perceived the technology integration into the storytelling activities is beneficial in the language learning while at the same time increasing the English student teachers' creativity in designing the teaching and learning activities for the English student teachers' future class. The findings also suggest that further research need to investigate the use of digital stories in another forms of software application and different level of English student teachers.