Abstract
The purpose of this research study was to examine how pre-service teachers in a college of education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) used multimodal digital storytelling to explore their language and literacy learning experiences in Arabic and English. Twenty-one pre-service teachers participated in this qualitative study. Drawing on the digital stories, reflection papers and open-ended surveys as data, the study explored the pre-service teachers’ bilingual literacy language experiences and how they created their digital stories. Emerging themes included early experiences in language and literacy learning at home and at school, and expanded notions of literacy. The memoirs offered a glimpse into the cultures, linguistic development and schooling of the participants and importance of using multimodal digital storytelling to support literacy and language learning in ESL/EFL contexts.
Recommended Citation
Sowa, Patience A.
(2014)
"Literacy in our Lives, Past, Present and Future: Exploring Digital Stories by UAE Pre-service Teachers,"
TAPESTRY: Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 7.
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https://stars.library.ucf.edu/tapestry/vol6/iss1/7
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