Facilitating English as Second Language Learning through a Transmedia Storyworld

Presented at Transmedia Literacy International Conference 2018 - #Transliteracy2018 - Language learning shouldn't be dissociated from the learners' social and cultural context. ESL educators need to address, in their instructional spaces, the hows, and whys of living and communicating in a technology- mediated ecosystem, in present times. Acting as media ecosystems, transmedia storyworlds can become a multimodal sandbox within which learners can gain a higher agency to produce language through digital formats. Part of an ongoing research project, we describe the design and implementation of a transmedia learning storyworld. Through the report and discussion of the first deployment of a prototype version and a transmedia learning experience based on the storyworld, we explore challenges inherent to the application of a transmedia storyworld in formal learning environments and indicate a set of issues that need to be addressed in the future.

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