Although Digital Storytelling (DST) has been widely and recently applied studied in ELT classrooms, little research documented its efficacy towards narrative writing speaking skills. For this reason, quasi-experimental aimed to investigate effects when used as a medium of learning on students' skills at an Indonesian privately owned Islamic school. A total 42 participants were divided into two ...

Social media has become an important part of adolescents’ lives, with increasing number teenagers spending a great their time creating, sharing, and socializing online content. Although the popularity social keeps growing, different studies identified threats dangers that exist in such networks. From harmful content to negative behaviors, users can fall victim phenomena affect mental health wel...

This study examined whether a storytelling and story-acting practice (STSA), integrated as a regular component of the preschool curriculum, can help promote three key dimensions of young children's school readiness: narrative and other oral-language skills, emergent literacy, and social competence. A total of 149 low-income preschoolers (almost all 3- and 4-year-olds) participated, attending si...

We examined young readers’ comprehension as a function of text genre (narrative, science), text cohesion (high, low), and readers’ abilities (reading decoding skills and world knowledge). The overarching purpose of this study was to contribute to our understanding of the fourth grade slump. Children in grade 4 read four texts, including one high and one low cohesion text from each genre. Compre...

BACKGROUND The fostering of reflective capacity within medical education helps develop critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills and enhances professionalism. Use of reflective narratives to augment reflective practice instruction is well documented. AIM At Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (Alpert Med), a narrative medicine curriculum innovation of students' reflective w...