Technology integration in the form of digital storytelling: mapping the concerns of four Malaysian ESL instructors

Thang, Siew Ming; Lin, Luck Kee; Mahmud, Najihah; Ismail, Khaidzir; Zabidi, Noraza Ahmad

doi:10.1080/09588221.2014.903979

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“…Likewise, in Malaysia, more studies were done on teachers' concern on the outcome of adopting ICT (e.g. Thang et al, 2014;Norazila Abd Aziz, 2017) instead of student's concern on their academic needs, particularly in the linguistics aspect. Moreover, without analysing the linguistics aspect, affective concern would not be fully understood from a pragmatic perspective.…”

Section: Concerns-based Adoption Model (Cbam): Stages Of Concernmentioning

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Speech Act of Concern on the Academic Performance of Malaysian Foster Children

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Language is vital in expressing concern as it allows one to explain their feelings, ideas and behaviour. Teachers and caregivers are concerned about the poor academic performance of foster children as these children have low grades on tests and high dropout rates. Those with poor academic performance might be vulnerable to secure a better life when they leave home. Nevertheless, studies on concern in regards to Malaysian foster children's academic issues from a language perspective are scarce. Hence, this qualitative study uses speech act categories and stages of concern to examine the voices of concern, of teachers and caregivers towards the academic performance of foster children. The data were collected from semistructured interview sessions with teachers and caregivers. Findings reveal that teachers and caregivers are highly concerned about the poor academic performance of foster children as their responses are most prominent in the stage of refocusing. They attempted to reach out to address foster children's academic needs by giving suggestions. However, they face challenges in addressing these children's academic needs and issues. Representative act is highly utilised by teachers and caregivers to describe, report or explain about problems in trying to help the children. This study contributes to the area of speech acts on concern especially on the academic performance of foster children in Malaysia.

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Section: Concerns-based Adoption Model (Cbam): Stages Of Concernmentioning

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Speech Act of Concern on the Academic Performance of Malaysian Foster Children

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“…According to Thang et al (2014), Malaysian teachers can recommend DST to "other class in the future and would recommend it to other teachers" because they said, "student didn"t ask [their teachers] when they encounter technical problem and all like this. They solve most of the problems on their own" (p. 318).…”

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“…While in the US and Europe, iMovie and Window Movie Maker are used, "in Malaysia, the Microsoft PhotoTory 3 was used because of its fewer requirements of ICT skills and allows offline access" (Thang et al, 2014). Moreover, it adopted Robin and Pierson"s (2005) model (see Figure 1) in creating the digital story telling.…”

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“…Secondly, the changes in the syllabus are usually directive from the school administrators without any announcements in advance, so "many of the teachers were taken by surprise and some of them, especially those who lacked ICT skills, could not see the need for the relatively drastic change from their previous practice and had no clear idea how the changes would benefit their existing teaching environment and their social responsibilities" (Fishman, 2000, Hiltz, 1988, Wilson, Sherry, Dobrovolny, Batty, & Ryder, 2002, as cited in Thang et al, 2014. Therefore, Rogers (2003) argues if teachers are considered as "agents of change, it can help speed up the diffusion of innovation in schools" (as cited in Thang et al, 2014, p. 324). Finally, Hargreavaes (2005 found that "older teachers have a tendency to resist changes in schools and would challenge the outcomes of change whilst the younger generation of teachers coming straight from teacher training would be more willing to accept change" (Thang et al, 2014, p. 325).…”

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Teachers’ Concerns and Solutions Towards The Implementation of Digital Storytelling in Teaching English in ESL Classroom in Asian Countries

Bui¹

2015

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We are living in the era of Information Technology where students have a lot exposure to the state-of-the-art devices and softwares. The remarkable revolutions in interactivity and multimedia materials together with countless emerging technologies have also enabled the conception of digital storytelling. However, it has not been widely used in many developing countries such as Vietnam. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to conduct an investigation into the history of digital storytelling, the necessary facilities and how it is being used educationally in the classroom so that teachers in developing countries can widely apply digital storytelling in teaching. This paper also raises students" awareness towards using technology in their study, which will make an important breakthrough in teaching and learning English in Vietnam.

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“…In Thang, Lin, Mahmud, Ismail and Zabidi (2014) conducted a study on the four Malaysian teachers who performed their ESL teaching using the digital storytelling. The results show that the teachers think the digital storytelling may bring benefits to the students to some extent, but it also raises a high demand for teachers' information and technical level.…”

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Visualization Analysis of Researches on Digital Storytelling Based on Mapping Knowledge Domain

Wu¹,

Xing-lu²

2017

JLAS

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The development of the information age and globalization has challenged the training of technical talents in the 21st century, and the information media and technical skills are becoming increasingly important. As a creative sharing form of multimedia, the digital storytelling is being concerned by more and more educators because of its discipline applicability and media technology enhancing ability. In this study, the information visualization software, i.e. CiteSpace was applied to visualize and analyze the researches on digital storytelling from the aspects of key articles and citation hotspots, and make a review on the research status of the digital storytelling in the education fields, such as promoting language learning, and helping students develop the 21st century skills.

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Technology integration in the form of digital storytelling: mapping the concerns of four Malaysian ESL instructors

Cited by 40 publications

References 22 publications

Speech Act of Concern on the Academic Performance of Malaysian Foster Children

Speech Act of Concern on the Academic Performance of Malaysian Foster Children

Teachers’ Concerns and Solutions Towards The Implementation of Digital Storytelling in Teaching English in ESL Classroom in Asian Countries

Visualization Analysis of Researches on Digital Storytelling Based on Mapping Knowledge Domain

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