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Teaching english to children from 9 to 10 years old throuh stories using multimedia

Abstract:

Nowadays, English has become one of the most important languages all over the world. For that reason, we have considered essential to improve the process of teaching-learning through media and technology. This new alternative of teaching process involves students to encode message in the media with the purpose to make them perceive this message better than only with the print form. To teach children from 9 to 10 years old, we have taken advantage of the multimedia and fairy tales in conjunction with digital storytelling. Using this new tool, the class becomes more interesting, and the teacher increases the attention of the students. One of the most interesting aspects of using digital storytelling in the classroom is that it is very easy to evolve these stories with technical knowledge and aptitudes of both teacher and student. In its most basic form, a digital story can be stated through Power Point. To evolve a story in the process of learning, teachers can use Photo Story which is one of our most popular tools. Photo Story is ease of using and making it applicable even in the primary grades. Also, if a teacher wants to combine images, videos and audio in a compelling movie, the appropriate tool to use is Movie Maker. We expect increase children s motivation and improve comprehension with the use of Fairy Tale Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs . One of the advantages of using this Fairy Tale is that students at this stage already know the content of the Story; therefore, the Story stated in English and elaborated in an Educative Software is a good option to teach new vocabulary, and new structures