QEF Project: Enhancing Student’s English Proficiency, Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking and English Learning Motivation Through Digital and Traditional Story-telling

With the objectives of cultivating students’ English proficiency, academic achievement, critical thinking, English learning motivation on narrative text-types through digital and traditional story-telling, a series of activities such as workshops on the use of digital tools and storytelling skills and storytelling programmes conducted in the local primary school has been successfully organised under the QEF Project: Enhancing Student’s English Proficiency, Academic Achievement, Critical Thinking and English Learning Motivation Through Digital and Traditional Story-telling. In total, we have trained 25 students of The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) in the workshops and involved 126 Jockey Club Primary School pupils and seven in-service teachers in the storytelling programmes. 

Sharing of Student Speakers are as follows: 

• Coni Qiu: Book selection: How to pick stories suitable for target students?
• Vicky Chen: Story adaptation: How to adapt stories to best fit the purpose?
• Rosetta Law: Storytelling skills: What skills can be used to tell stories in a more interactive way?
• Anna Xia: Technical skills: Video-making tools and skills
   

In this project, not only the pupils have improved their English proficiency especially reading comprehension and listening skills, learning motivation and critical thinking skills through the chosen stories embedded with suitable target language items, creative plots and characters as well as positive values; but also the EdUHK students as pre-service teachers have enhanced their digital literacy skills through producing digital storytelling videos, practical pedagogical skills such as classroom management and collaboration skills used in co-teaching. 

This project mobilises and synthesises various resources in the community to create positive interactions among different participants so that they are able to make their own contributions based on personal strengths to benefit each other. Meanwhile, the generated meaningful knowledge, practices and experiences can also be transferred to the community as well in the way of sharing, disseminations and workshops. 

 

1st Session of Story-telling Programme in JCPS

Last Story-telling Session of Storytelling Programme in JCPS

Awarding Certificate for Excellent Digital Storytelling Videos

Awarding Certificate for Excellent Digital Storytelling Videos

Workshop about Use of Digital Tools