Supporting Oral Narrative Development of Preschool English Language Learners Using Multimedia Stories: A Case Study

• In Event: Exploring Influences on Learning English as a Second Language

Abstract

Both dialogic reading approach and multimedia stories have potential to assist kindergarten ELLs in developing oral narrative skills, and vocabulary supports oral narrative development. However, in previous studies, there is little research on how to provide vocabulary instruction to young ELLs and how to use dialogic reading to foster their oral narrative development with the support of multimedia stories. The purpose of this case study is to explore what modifications are needed for the vocabulary instruction approach designed by one of the authors for teaching story vocabulary words using multimedia stories, and how to implement dialogic reading with the support of multimedia stories to improve oral narrative skills of ELLs of different English proficiency levels.

Authors

• Sha Yang, Purdue University

• Lixia Cheng, Purdue University