Febrina Amandita. 2022. Digital Story Telling For Teaching English For Young
Learners. Thesis. English Language Department. Faculty of Tarbiyah and Teacher
Training. Antasari State Islamic University. Supervisor : (I) Nani Hizriani, M.A.
(II) Hidayah Nor, S.Pd., M.Pd.
Keywords: Implementation, Digital Storytelling, Young Learners, Challenges.
Digital Storytelling is one of the approaches to teaching English. This
study tells you how Indonesian teachers implement digital storytelling to teach
junior high students. This research focuses on how to teach junior high school
students or novice students because teaching English to beginners is a must. From
this research, the researcher concludes that digital storytelling is a creative and
interesting medium for novice students. Digital storytelling is an interesting tool
to express the identity of students and can take moral values from local
stories. In addition, teaching novice students using digital storytelling can improve
students' speaking and listening skills and also increase students' vocabulary
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owledge. In digital story telling there are steps for teaching, namely;
Brainstorming, Create the story board, Search the material, Creating digital story
telling, Editing and feedback, and Presentation and evaluation.
Researchers used descriptive qualitative research to find out how teachers
implement digital story telling and what challenges teachers face in teaching at
MTs. Al-Istiqamah Banjarmasin Floating. Researchers used two techniques in
collecting data, namely observation and interviews and conducted directly.
The results showed that the teacher implemented digital story telling in the
classroom using Youtube media and focused on students' speaking and listening
skills as well as on the moral values obtained from stories.