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标题：Students’ Experience of Using Storybird in Writing ESL Narrative Text
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作者：Siti Mariam Zakaria ; Melor Md. Yunus ; Nurhuda Mohamad Nazri 等
期刊名称：Creative Education
印刷版ISSN：2151-4755
电子版ISSN：2151-4771
出版年度：2016
卷号：07
期号：15
页码：2107-2120
DOI：10.4236/ce.2016.715210
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：Equipping students with 21st century skills has become the main focus among educators. In line with the Ministry of Education initiatives in transforming the framework of Malaysia Education system, 11 shifts charted are steered to witness the nation stay abreast, if not ahead of global trends. One of the major shifts is to leverage Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in order to escalate quality learning experience in the classrooms across the country. Therefore, preparation of teaching materials with meaningful technology integration is imperative to prepare students for the mastery of 21st century skills. Thus, the assimilation of online tool into teaching and learning of writing skills is stimulating to elevate students’ writing competency and motivations along the process. This study aims to identify students’ experiences in using digital storytelling tool called Storybird in writing English as a Second Language (ESL) narrative text. Semi-structured interviews and observation are the instruments employed to collect data from 15 diploma students of a private university in Malaysia. The findings show that majority of the respondents reflect their positive experiences in using Storybird in writing ESL narrative text. This study has significant implications to shed some light on the potential use of Storybird as a pedagogical tool for English course.
关键词：Digital Storytelling;Storybird;ESL Writing;Narrative Text