Digital Storytelling and Young Adult Literature: A Methodological Combination for the Language Classroom

Abstract

Digital Storytelling (DST) originated in the 1990s as a narrative technique highlighting ‘ordinary voices’ in order to contribute to the public media discourse. Soon it was picked up by education to capture the diverse lived realities of students. This paper presents a methodological development in the form of a combination of DST with extensive reading of Young Adult Literature in the English classroom. A scaffolded methodological approach is outlined where DST is used as a post‑reading activity which can be enhanced in any foreign language classroom.

Keywords

• Digital storytelling. Extensive reading. Foreign language classroom. Young Adult Literature