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Boosting Emotional Growth and Reading Motivation with Digital Narratives

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Digital storytelling is a pedagogical approach aimed at enhancing students' motivation, critical thinking, learning outcomes, and socio-economic development. Recent studies indicate its effectiveness in teaching English as a second language to forty-five tertiary learners, assisting in mitigating negative emotions such as shyness and fear of speaking, embarrassment in classroom settings, and lack of confidence when using English in social contexts. Students were randomly divided into eight independent groups. The four controlled groups were taught the basic use of PowerPoint to digitalize their bilingual storybooks. Other groups were granted the autonomy to create a digital storybook outside the classroom using other Apps such as CapCut or Canva. Flipping the classroom has proven to be an effective strategy for encouraging verbal expression while also fostering trust and connection among group members. The digital narratives effectively engaged learners, enhancing their motivation to read and understand the content.