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Tracing the Development of EFL Teachers’ Intentions to Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom

Digital storytelling (DTS) has been shown to have several affective (e.g., L2 enjoyment), cognitive (e.g., reading comprehension), and linguistic benefits (e.g., vocabulary knowledge) for L2 learners. However, to design locally appropriate and pedagogically effective DTS, teachers should consider targeting students’ needs, language proficiency, and language curriculum while referring to the TPACK (Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge) model.


In this session, Ms Chen Jianzhu would first share how a 39-hour intensive DTS training program helped Hong Kong primary school teachers improve their TPACK levels. Then, she would suggest how to create DTS using different e-resources, such as H5P, an open-source platform for creating interactive learning activities. At the end of her sharing, she would also discuss how teachers’ intensions to use DTS in the classroom have changed over the course of the training based on Dr Ju Seong Lee’s research findings.



View her presentation slides here.

(length: 41:55)


Outline of this Sharing Session: Tracing the Development of EFL Teachers’ Intentions to Use Digital Storytelling in the Classroom


Presenter: Ms Chen Jianzhu



For more details about using DTS in the classroom, please visit Dr Ju Seong Lee’s poster page here: https://humbol.eduhk.hk/posters/leejuseong/


For more talks and topics, here is the full list of links to all the breakout sessions: https://eteachers.online/eteachers/

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