<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>With almost five million English language learners in the United States, digital storytelling is increasingly being used in second language learning classrooms. As a teaching and learning strategy, digital storytelling can promote critical thinking, connect new content with prior knowledge, enhance memory, and foster confidence and motivation for learning. Digital stories possess unique narrative qualities that often center on identity negotiation and the ways culturally and linguistically diverse students make meaning out of their lives. Fostering hands-on, active learning, digital storytelling is an interactive way to include culturally and linguistically diverse students’ voices in a curriculum that may not easily represent them. Practical implementation of digital storytelling is included.</p></abstract>

With almost five million English language learners in the United States, digital storytelling is increasingly being used in second language learning classrooms. As a teaching and learning strategy, digital storytelling can promote critical thinking, connect new content with prior knowledge, enhance memory, and foster confidence and motivation for learning. Digital stories possess unique narrative qualities that often center on identity negotiation and the ways culturally and linguistically diverse students make meaning out of their lives. Fostering hands-on, active learning, digital storytelling is an interactive way to include culturally and linguistically diverse students’ voices in a curriculum that may not easily represent them. Practical implementation of digital storytelling is included.

(Re)Claiming Voices: Digital Storytelling and Second Language Learners

Acta Educationis Generalis

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With almost five million English language learners in the United States, digital storytelling is increasingly being used in second language learning...

(Re)Claiming Voices: Digital Storytelling and Second Language Learners

Published Online: Jun 05, 2015

Page range: 60 - 67

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/atd-2015-0034

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