Old meets new: Collaborative digital storytelling for effective l2 reading instruction
Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, cilt.2017, sa.November Special Issue INTE, ss.631-638, 2017 (Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 2017 Sayı: November Special Issue INTE
- Basım Tarihi: 2017
- Dergi Adı: Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.631-638
- Anahtar Kelimeler: Collaborative learning, Digital storytelling, Reading education, Reading pedagogy
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The average reader in L1 and L2 does not merely engage in a simple, unidirectional decoding process of the printed word. In contrast, language users now have a habit of relating and reacting to what they have just read and seen on online platforms like their social networking and news websites, blogs, wikis, videos and other media. Therefore, the traditional L2 reading pedagogy, which mostly focuses on a uniform understanding of the text, expanding the learner’s vocabulary repository, and contextualising the target grammar, cannot alone meet the needs and wants of this new generation of e-readers. On the other hand, digital storytelling can compensate for the variety, individuality, and interactivity a conventional reading class lacks by engaging learners in multimodal meaning-making with the help of technology. For this reason, the present study aims to demonstrate how digital storytelling can be used to develop a more collaborative, communicative, and creative study of difficult L2 texts by citing examples from actual classroom practices, where two groups of first-year students in an urban university of Turkey eventually produced their own alternative endings for a literary classic, and its contemporary adaptations after reading and watching the story during the course, Advanced Reading and Writing.