Digital Storytelling to Develop Multilingual and Multicultural Skills

Abstract

This qualitative study was based on a didactic experience that employed digital storytelling, understood as a narrative practice supported by multimodal resources, to foster multilingual and multicultural skills. Seventeen Italian secondary school students created digital stories in Spanish and Chinese, as foreign languages, about the migratory experience. The results showed an improvement in their multilingual skills and a more empathetic attitude toward different multicultural contexts.