| Summary: | 博士 === 國立中央大學 === 網路學習科技研究所 === 102 === Several EFL (English as a Foreign Language) countries have introduced English language education at the elementary school level in order to cultivate students’ basic abilities and their interest in learning English. How to enhance elementary EFL students’ achievement and motivation has thus been receiving much attention. Recently, the use of digital storytelling in classrooms provides a strategy for EFL students to bring together written English sentences, drawings, and the students’ own narration into their own multimodal representations. Besides, Web 2.0 technology, describing social media that allow users to share and interact with each other, brings new dimensions to EFL learning. Although research supports the significance and educational value of using Web 2.0 digital storytelling approaches, empirical studies of using such an approach in elementary EFL contexts are scarce. This study develops a Web 2.0 digital storytelling approach and conducts a five-month quasi-experimental study to determine whether it can enhance EFL elementary school students’ English skills and motivation. Two intact classes were randomly assigned as the Web 2.0 digital storytelling (experimental) group and lecture-oriented (control) group. The quantitative analyses of the learning tests and motivation questionnaires were conducted through descriptive statistics in order to indicate the difference in the two groups’ achievement and motivation. Also, Pearson’s correlation was conducted to evaluate how Web 2.0 digital storytelling performance plays a role in students’ English learning and motivation. The results of this study show that the experimental group outperformed the control group in both learning and motivation. Also, the participants’ storytelling performance plays a critical role in their learning and motivation. To conclude, a set of recommendations for pedagogical applications of a Web 2.0 digital storytelling for development of students’ achievement and motivation in elementary EFL classrooms is provided.
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