Collaborative genre-based digital storytelling of English as a foreign language: a case of an Indonesian primary school

Abstract

ABSTRACT Digital storytelling (DST) has been widely adopted as a pedagogical approach to English language teaching. However, a few studies have focused on examining primary school students’ experience of learning to create digital storytelling of English as a foreign language. To fill the gap, this study reports on an innovation in the use of genre-based digital storytelling in a primary school English classroom in Indonesia. In this project, pupils were engaged in a collaborative project to create digital stories. They carried out a series of DST tasks, such as finding a story theme, developing a story, revising the story, and presenting the story digitally. This case study found out that student participants could build students’ story literacy, (2) foster students’ literacy development of digital tools, (3) develop students’ story drafting engagement, and (4) promote students’ digital storytelling making and publication. The study suggests that primary school students can be engaged in genre-based digital storytelling to learn English and build their technological literacy.