The Effect of Using Digital Storytelling on Developing Active Listening and Creative Thinking Skills
Ahmad A.S. Tabieh
,
Mohamed M. Al-Hileh
,
Haya M. J. Abu Afifa
,
Hiba Yacoub Abuzagha
This study aims at investigating the impact of implementing digital storytelling as a method to be utilized to help pupils acquire active listening sk.
- Pub. date: January 15, 2021
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This study aims at investigating the impact of implementing digital storytelling as a method to be utilized to help pupils acquire active listening skills and creative thinking skills, including fluency, flexibility, and originality, in the Arabic language classes of the primary third grade. The sample consists of (200) pupils in a mixed-gender type and divides into two equal groups; one is the experimental group, and the other is the control one. Both groups expose to two posttests, the first test is a post active listening test and the second is a creative thinking test; the validity and reliability of these tests have assured. The results showed significant differences in (p ≤ 0.05) between means scores of the control and experimental groups students in the posttest of active listening skills in favor of the students who studied through storytelling. The results also showed that the storytelling strategy affected the experimental group students’ acquisition of one skill of the three creative thinking skills, which is fluency.
Keywords: Digital storytelling strategy, active listening, creative thinking, Arabic language.
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