The use of digital storytelling in improving teenagers' speaking skill at Star-Edu English Center in Vung Tau city: Master of TESOL

Abstract

Creative stories always pique the interest of the listeners as all time and the novice mind can apply and learn challenging concepts in various domains. Stories have a “social-related” form that is known as human art form, which teaches about human experiences, weaves into the fabric of our lives in a meaningful and connected way. That is storytelling. On the other hand, the application of technology in education is not new but the appropriateness and efficiency aspects of using technology is still in argumentation. This is because of the never-ending improvement of the application and the varied of them. After recruiting, examining, and learning about some of technological applications which are used for the improvement of teaching English or teaching a major in English. We identify the most appropriate tools that are easier and applicable for all Vietnamese students in every part of the country are power point slides, videos, and voice recording. Thus, the combining of storytelling and technology definitely will convert to positive outcomes and that is the reason why I choose the topic is about telling a story that use a digital tool to encourage students learn to speak a foreign language with interesting and proactiveness attitude. Besides, discovering the impact of the digitized learning environment on our traditional distance education in changing the method in which teachers teach and learners learn in the present time. The findings also showed that the group of students have applied digital storytelling in their learning truthfully gain better results than the group was having traditional method of teaching. Such preliminary findings are hoped to shed light on the enhancement of learner speaking skills by integrating technology into English language teaching and learning.