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The Effectiveness of Using Digital Storytelling in the English Language Classroom

Yichen Wang

Abstract


With the development of information technology, digital stories, as a new teaching tool, have been brought into foreign language learning classrooms. Digital stories can effectively help learners improve their English language proficiency to meet the requirements of the 21st century. Making the digital story is a farreaching process of language acquisition, which integrating traditional storytelling into the media and technological storytelling. However, while digital story is beneficial to learners’ improvement, its problems have also attracted people’s attention. This article will evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using digital stories in foreign language learning classrooms.

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Digital Storytelling; EFL Classroom; New Literacy

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v5i8.3865

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