Edulangue
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2021): Edulangue: Journal of English Language Education

Implementing Digital Storytelling-based Tasks for the Teaching of Narrative Writing Skills

Hilwa Alfiani Fitri (Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin)
Husnawadi Husnawadi (Unknown)
Ika Harianingsih (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Dec 2021

Abstract

Although the myriad study has been done for documenting the educational values of digital storytelling (DST) on EFL learners’ language mastery, the majority of the research does not depict students’ daily life tasks. To fill this void, this mixed-method research involving 24 EFL students explored the implementation of DST-based tasks for the teaching of narrative writing skills. Lied in TBLT methodology instruction of Anwar (2016) also task theory by Nunann (2004), this study aimed to examine the effect of DST-based task on students’ narrative writing skills and their perceptions about its implementation. The statistical evidence indicated a significant difference in the students writing scores for the pre-test score (M=53.54, SD=10.05) and students' narrative writing post-test (M=66.21, SD=12.56). Conditions where; t (23) - 6.545, p= 0.000. The qualitative finding also uncovered students' perceptions of digital storytelling-based task implementation; it found that digital storytelling-based tasks could promote students writing skills, their learning motivations, as well as their language development for several skills such as listening and their vocabulary enhancement. Implications and recommendations for future studies are discussed.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

edulangue

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

Description

Edulangue aims to facilitate the dissemination of theoretically and practically grounded knowledge in the area of English language pedagogy, which comprises English language teaching and learning and assessment. It does not welcome any contribution pertinent to the realm of Linguistics and ...