Use of Digital Storytelling and Speech Anxiety of the Grade 10 Students of MinSCAT Calapan City Campus
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Storytelling, digital storytelling, speech anxiety, interventionAbstract
Storytelling has always been an integral part of teaching. It is an educational instrument used to pass knowledge from one generation to another. Thus, it is still part of education from the past up to the present and maybe even in the future. Adapting to the changes over time, storytelling has been combined with technological advancement, leading to the development of digital storytelling. This study determined the level of effectiveness of digital storytelling in addressing the speech anxiety of the Grade 10 students. Using the quasi-experimental design, the research tested the changes in the level of speech anxiety using the digital and traditional storytelling methods. Using a teacher-structured survey, the level of the students’ speech anxiety was pre-determined. After the five teaching sessions, a post evaluation was conducted to determine the effectiveness of either methodology. Results revealed that there was a moderate level of anxiousness among the respondents prior and after the experimentation. However, there was an established significant difference on the speech anxiety of both groups who were exposed to traditional and digital storytelling. Based on the results, an intervention plan was proposed to reduce anxiety through the utilization of storytelling techniques.
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