Digital Storytelling: Educational Technology to Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language

Abstract

In recent decades, technological developments have made a significant contribution to the teaching of
languages. The modernization of the world and advances in technology need students to take their learning to another
level and not only speak but also utilize English effectively. To provide students with learning material more creatively, by
use of appropriate teaching media capable of boosting pupils' interest and helping them to understand the content
easily, teachers need to be more creative in their work as facilitators. A teacher or other narrator will narrate a story in
an educational context using the classic technique known as storytelling aloud. Digital storytelling is another method of
conveying a story using websites and the internet. Digital Storytelling is an essential tool for teaching and learning that
has been developing over the past several years, engaging teachers and students. The purpose of the literature review
was to examine 15 articles retrieved from Google Scholar to respond to the research question about the function of
digital storytelling in teaching and learning English as a foreign language. The majority of these articles highlight the use
of digital storytelling as a cutting-edge teaching strategy. These articles demonstrated how educators could utilize digital
storytelling as a helpful tool while teaching and studying English as a foreign language at different levels of education.
Most of the writers of these research studies offered empirical data to support the benefits of using digital storytelling in
the classroom to improve students' ability to communicate and speak English.