Review of Storyboardthat.Com: Scaffolding EFL Students in Digital Storytelling Making

ABSTRACT

In this digital age, digital storytelling (DST) has been widely used as an alternative to either oral or written traditional storytelling. In the context of English as a foreign language, DST has gained its popularity as a pedagogical approach to mediate students to experience authentic language learning and make meaning of their learning experience. Although pedagogical interventions of teaching DST have been documented extensively in literature, this article focuses on reviewing a website that can be employed to scaffold students when creating digital storyboard. At the outset, this article explores the features of the website and how it can assist students to make digital storyboard. What follows, this article offers innovative ways of using the website to scaffold students to create digital storytelling. Finally, this article presents students’ voices reflecting on their experience of using the website in digital storyboard making process.

Keywords:

• Digital storytelling
• Scaffoloding
• Storyboardthat.com
• Storyboarding

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Correction Statement

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