THE IMPACT OF EFL TEACHERS’ CREATIONS OF DIGITAL STORYTELLING PROJECT ON MINIMIZING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ANXIETY

Abstract

This article investigates the impact of EFL teacher creating Digital Storytelling project to minimize students' speaking anxiety. This project develops children's communication skills through tasks that are completed using technology as an auxiliary medium to increase student engagement. Based from the findings two main result can be described as follow: 1. The results of the interviews revealed the experiences of the two interviewees who had learned to use this strategy in their schools and experienced the positive results first-hand where these strategies provide concrete results in overcoming speaking anxiety. 2. The result strongly implies that Digital Storytelling is a learning strategy that combines Project-based Learning with storytelling to stimulate the development of communication skills. Consequently, employing Digital Storytelling as a task that heightens the engagement of students in speaking exercises and creating Digital Storytelling into an enjoyable activity for them. The author concludes that Digital Storytelling project is a learning strategy that is very suitable to be applied at the junior high school level because of its involvement with 21st century learning which involves the use of the latest information technology and gives them new experiences in life skills. It can also be used to make a special reference to create a better and more perfect learning strategy.