Digital Storytelling As A Strategy For Increasing Students’ Emotional Intelligence And Cope With Depression While Learning English As A Second Language.
Keywords:
Emotional intelligence, EFL strategies, Inclusive education, Education for all, Depression, Motivation for EFL studentsAbstract
This article presents a brief revision about the benefits of using digital storytelling in the EFL classroom to increase levels of emotional intelligence in students and, with that, cope with depression while they are also developing communicative skills and go through meaningful learning experiences, this as a strategy for inclusive education and education for all. This, thanks to digital storytelling, which is an actual tool that may take advantage of the development of technology and the interest that young people feel for it and taking into account depression is a mood that can affect students’ performance at school and their other life scenarios, the proposal of the digital storytelling arises as an educational strategy of inclusion. For this article, it was used a Documentary Research Methodology where different articles and books related to the topic were gathered to give scientific and credible support. It was found that, as it was hypothesized, emotional intelligence is a big influence in people who suffer from depression and that people with high emotional intelligence can better respond to emotional affections such as depression and anxiety. Digital storytelling resulted to be a good strategy to improve students’ emotional intelligence and with that work as a tool to cope with depression answering with this to the special needs of students with depression while at the same time they can improve their cognitive language skills.
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