ERIN LEININGER's research while affiliated with American School of Kuwait and other places

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Article
In this piece, a teacher educator and two secondary teachers describe how they implemented the Learners' Lives as Curriculum model (Weinstein, 2004) with adolescent English language learners using a unit from a pilot secondary curriculum titled Lives Unfolding (Weinstein & Cloud, 2007). They discuss the development and adaptation of the Names unit...

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... Jakes (2006) points out that the process of creating digital stories utilizes almost all of the 21st-century skills including information literacy, visual literacy, creativity, inventive thinking, risk-taking, and effective communication. In addition, research has shown that digital storytelling also promotes L2 learning and the development of language skills (Cloud, Lakin, & Leininger, 2011;Dogan & Robin, 2009;Vinogradova, Linville, & Bickel, 2011;Sadik, 2008). ...