Share Paper: Assessing the Effects of Digital Storytelling on Middle School English Language Learners
Monday, March 5 10:55 AM-11:15 AM Creekside I
Abstract: This paper is a report on the effects to student learning when students create multiple digital stories in the middle school English language-learning classroom. The researchers created a project based curriculum where 16 individual students created 5 digital projects (each story having multiple drafts and revisions) over an 7 month period--thus presenting a more nuanced description of computer assisted language learning development than currently available in the extant body of research on digital story-telling with language learners. Initial findings indicate that students made substantial and measurable improvement in their writing, reading, speaking and self-regulated learning, particularly in their development of ...