THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING DIGITAL STORYTELLING TECHNIQUE IN MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOMS IN ORDER TO RAISE AWARENESS OF TRANSNATIONALISM

Abstract

English classrooms became more colorful, interactive recent years. Teachers need to work a lot developing their teaching skills and methods as young generation of today’s technologically developed century demand high quality education. Teacher should be capable of recognizing different socio-cultural problems apart from educational in the second language and foreign language acquisition classroom. In this case introducing outstanding,enjoyable and at the same to effective teaching techniques are considered as a valuable, significant tool to conduct lessons.Especially multicultural classes need this kind of interactive,technology based activities in order to shape social, cultural communication. In this process assessment part also plays crucial role as learners will improve their skills more during independent,self-study time. Tasks which are given by teacher should be relevant to topic and should serve learners to develop skills working in groups in order to form awareness of transnationalism in the SLA and FLA classroom. According to Brown (2010) in order to achieve expected results during the teaching process the assessment tool should include some principles like practicality, validity, reliability,authenticity and washback. Digital storytelling can justify all this criteria and this article contains evidence to this view.