Digital storytelling and the oral production skill

Abstract

Digital storytelling is a new approach that is getting popular in language teaching because digital technology stimulates the interest of learning and reduces anxiety in students. In addition, it is considered a strategy which helps the instructors to meet diverse student needs and motivates them to learn and practice their ability to speak. Under this context, the current investigation was raised with the objective of studying the impact of digital storytelling and the oral production skill. In the development of the research, a quasi-experimental methodology was applied. The population was of 52 elements, 26 in the experimental group and 26 in the control group. The experimental group used the digital storytelling strategy and the control group followed the curriculum plan. The oral production of the students was controlled by an A1 Movers Cambridge Test adaptation, which was applied at the beginning and at the end of the evaluation. Throughout the investigation, it was possible to identify a positive connection between digital storytelling and oral production ability. Due to the statistical test T application, it was possible to show that there were significant differences in the means of the samples in the previous test and in the following one, going from a value of 2,2308 to a value of 1,5385, assuming the strategy effectiveness. In addition, a significant level of correlation (0.817) between both variables was obtained.