Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift

Autor: Pedro Antonio Férez Mora, Yvette Coyle
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching.
ISSN: 1613-4141
0019-042X
DOI: 10.1515/iral-2022-0191
Popis: This study explores the challenges and benefits primary education EFL trainees (N = 28) reported when designing and videoing a storytelling session originally intended to be conducted offline with young learners. This change of scenario was caused by the COVID-19 crisis. The data for the study were derived from the trainees’ written reflections, focus group interviews, videos of instructional sessions and student-authored multimodal videos, which were explored to interpret trainees’ creative processes while engaged in multimodal composing. The results indicate that trainees hold videoed storytelling to have a similar number of challenges and benefits as face-to-face storytelling. However, two of the reported advantages, enhanced creativity and self-confidence, sit at misconceptions based on trainees’ limited knowledge of the pedagogical potential of multimodal resources. The findings have important educational implications in helping develop a pedagogy of videoed storytelling, while also highlighting the need for teacher training programs to specifically target the development of teachers’ competence in multimodal pedagogy.
Databáze: OpenAIRE