Dramatization as a strategy to improve speaking skills in 8th level students at Sánchez y Cifuentes high school, academic period 2021-2022

Propose dramatization as a strategy to improve speaking skills in 8th level students at Sanchez y Cifuentes high school, Academic Period 2021-2022English language learning has become a very important topic in education since many people around the world use it to communicate. English in the education of students is a very broad topic because within this there are several aspects that must be considered, such as the activities to be performed, the topics, and the methodologies to be used. Dramatization as a teaching aspect within the English language is a very broad theme since there are several activities that allow teachers to help students acquire speaking skills in an impressive way. The general objective of this study was " Propose Dramatization as a strategy to improve speaking skills in 8th level students at Sanchez y Cifuentes high school, academic period 2021-2022". The total sample of the research was 93 students and interviews were conducted with 2 teachers of the selected educational institution, which in this case were from the Unidad Educativa Fiscomisional "Sanchez y Cifuentes", likewise, the study had a mixed approach, the methodological instruments used to obtain the results were the survey and the interview. For the development of the proposal, the deficiencies found in the students through the survey and the information gathered from the interview were considered. The guide consists of 4 units with there are 2 activities for each. Regarding the results, it was found that most of the students present deficiencies in the different English language skills, and teachers show singularities that are not very positive when carrying out activities related to dramatization.Licenciatur

Video and storytelling in a digital world: interactions and narratives in videoclips

This paper presents a study about narratives in music videos. It discusses the arrangements of audio-visual languages from settings established by characteristics of the media, emphasizing the role of platforms for the diffusion of information and entertainment such as YouTube. It highlights a dialogue within cinema’s own language and shows that, in contemporary scenarios, music videos actually tell stories. It is argued that contemporary music videos, in great majority, increase the duration of music, with pauses, performances of characters, insertion of dialogues and other structuring elements that are not typical of the classic and conventional paradigms of a language. For our purposes, the objects of this study are the music videos of Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan. The theoretical foundation is established through authors involved in debates around a culture of convergence, transmedia storytelling and interactions among the audio-visual languages

Padawan’s Journey: Remixing Star Wars Radio for Adolescent Literacy Education

The Star Wars phenomenon motivates adolescents who may be disengaged in the classroom. The wealth of visual content may overshadow the power of the music, sound effects, and dialogue. In literacy education, skills are often practiced by reading and discussing traditional texts. In this digital literacy project, struggling readers remixed the Star Wars canon through audio storytelling. Students served as actors, Foley artists, and directors in the recording of brief episodes based on the original trilogy. The project heightens students’ oral fluency and text comprehension by engaging in close reading and structured dialogue. The recordings demonstrate how students can be effective storytellers and produce a sophisticated exhibit of learning. Future plans to extend full-length stories and enhance production are on-going

Exploring narrativity in data visualization in journalism

Many news stories are based on data visualization, and storytelling with data has become a buzzword in journalism. But what exactly does storytelling with data mean? When does a data visualization tell a story? And what are narrative constituents in data visualization? This chapter first defines the key terms in this context: story, narrative, narrativity, showing and telling. Then, it sheds light on the various forms of narrativity in data visualization and, based on a corpus analysis of 73 data visualizations, describes the basic visual elements that constitute narrativity: the instance of a narrator, sequentiality, temporal dimension, and tellability. The paper concludes that understanding how data are transformed into visual stories is key to understanding how facts are shaped and communicated in society

Digital storytelling : the impact on student engagement, motivation and academic learning

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Digital Technologies for Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language: a collective monograph

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Image and Video Processing: An Ingenious Tool of Story Telling

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Animation: A Learning Tool

Childhood has changed rapidly over the past few years and the methods that we use as teachers and educators of children and young people should reflect these changes. Children learn best and most when they enjoy what they are doing. Using animation as a tool to encourage and develop children’s learning is not only fun but effective! This thesis presents the Animation as an effective learning tool. The very common definition of Animation is representation of images to create an illusion of movement. If I draw a series of images, showing a man walking with each picture having one specific position of his leg movement. If we show these entire set of images one after other real quick, the man magically seems to move! This is the basic ideology behind animation. The project start with research work dealing with the understanding of animation, colours used in a particular scenes where one is trying to focus, psychological behaviour of colours and its impact on viewer. In movie’s colour graphics use of colours is very clear, intensity of colours are used in such a way that it doesn’t distract the person watching it or disturb the person in some mean and which looks amusing to the viewer. Colour graphics in any movie, whether with living character or animated describe the scenes with talk between the character, their motion and the scenery means background. Many times it’s the scenery which attract the people and also character looks beautiful in that scenery. But it’s very important to their intensity of which is used as a more informal knowledge source and understanding the problem of students awareness and their attitude towards the computer graphics and how they use it to increase their knowledge about the animation, graphics and specially colour graphics and it challenges the psychology behind understanding the things if taught with help of graphics or motion of pictures. The research trying to state that basic things and general information can be shown or told directly but through animation or graphics specially colour graphics it leaves a mark on people’s mind and it is interesting and it’s easy to understand if taught with a better understanding of colours and way animation should be represented, so nobody gets bored and student enjoy watching it