The emergence of digital storytelling and multimedia technology in improving Greek language teaching and learning： Challenges versus limitations

作     者：Smaragda Papadopoulou Spantidakis Ioannis 

作者机构：Department of Primary Education University of loannina loannina 54640 Greece Department of Elementary Education University of Creta Rethymno 74100 Greece 

出 版 物：《Sino-US English Teaching》 (中美英语教学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2010年第7卷第4期

页      面：1-14页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 0401[教育学-教育学] 04[教育学] 040102[教育学-课程与教学论] 120403[管理学-教育经济与管理（可授管理学、教育学学位）] 

主　　题：storytelling multimedia technology language teaching language acquisition 

摘      要：Greek schools are witnessing widening gaps between traditional definitions and applications of literacy, which include reading, writing and speaking in terms of exercises from school textbooks and contemporary literacy practices like digital storytelling, interactive multimedia use and online communications. Language and literacy teachers of primary education are called upon daily to bridge these contradictions through pedagogical and textual choices they make in classroom teaching. This paper reports an experimental study with children of the fifth grade at public Greek schools to apply modernist literacy approaches involving digital storytelling and online communication in improving language skills. The paper analytically presents the didactic examples of a thematic union within the framework of the Greek curriculum and the alternative assessment for the experimental teaching on digital technologies among mother tongue learners. The findings have implications for teacher＇s and student＇s education and also for the integration of a pedagogical-technological content of curriculum within the continuing debate of being culturally and equally literate in today＇s education.