Story-Shaping Beyond A-Z: Digital Storytelling Through the Multimodalities-Entextualization Cycle for Higher Education in Hong Kong

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Abstract

The Multimodalities-Entextualisation Cycle (MEC) (Lin, 2016; 2020) was adopted in this design-based research as a heuristic tool in some digital storytelling circles (Lambert, 2012) co-designed for 69 plurilingual, pluricultural tertiary students in Hong Kong. Theoretically, the MEC (Lin, 2016; 2020) facilitates dynamic flows of multimodal meaning making resources in ecologically harmonized educational settings. Data generation focused on informants' digital language portraits (Busch, 2012; Mu et. al., 2024), visual storyboards, bilingual written scripts and digital storytelling production logs. Research findings (a) explicated dynamic roles of AI-guided teacher-to-student and student-to-student dialogic scaffolds and (b) examined digital storytelling as educational semiotics for (i) heteroglossic teaching and learning, (ii) co-engaged academic collaboration, (iii) non-hierarchical knowledge co-making and (iv) personal growth and community discovery.

Author

• Phoebe Siu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University