New Approaches to Teaching Research Methods in Linguistics: A Case Study on the Implementation of Discourse Analysis through Digital Storytelling

This paper presents an exploratory study on integrating DST and DA to assist EFL university students in understanding, acquiring, and assimilating linguistic content and developing 21st Century Skills as required by today's European Regulations for Lifelong Learning. Through a socio-constructivist case study research design, quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed through descriptive statistics, computer-assisted qualitative content analysis (including thematic sentiment analysis), and basic corpus linguistics analyses. The results showed that integrating DST with DA positively affected students' reflective thinking, development of Learning, Information, and Life skills, as well as knowledge acquisition. Accordingly, this paper aims to shel light on the benefits of combining interactive, cutting-edge technological methodologies such as DST with critical analytical approaches like DA in allowing the comprehension of linguistic topics, the role played by language in society by digitally narrativizing discourse content, and the enhancement of abilities and competencies.