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Digital storytelling for EFL preschool classroom: tools, activities and themes proposed by preservice teachers. Castillo-Rodríguez, Cristina Milagrosa Santos-Díaz, Inmaculada Clotilde Díaz Lage, José María Educación infantil Inglés - Estudio y enseñanza Narración de cuentos The storytelling practice, in general, and the digital storytelling (DS), in particular, entail many advantages for young pupils in the educative context. The main aim of this paper was to examine the tools, the type of activities, and the themes of the stories devoted to preschool pupils. Preservice preschool teachers were asked to choose tools to create their genuine story materials and to design an activity for a specific target age of preschool education to go with them. A total of 136 preservice teachers’ tasks were analysed for this study. The results showed that the most frequent tool type in the three-targetage (3, 4, and 5 years old) was the one allowing the integration of Dialoguesin the stories; the most popular activity type was Reading comprehensionfor 4-and 5-year-olds, and Images (match or order)for 3-year-olds; and the most recurrent theme was Animal and petsfor 4-and 5-year-olds and Friendship for 3-year-olds. This type of study is essential to train preservice teachers both digitally and methodologically for today's school. 2025-11-03T12:18:52Z 2025-11-03T12:18:52Z 2025-11-03T12:18:52Z 2022-09-01 journal article Castillo Rodríguez, C., Santos Díaz, I.C., & Díaz Lage, J.M. (2022). Digital storytelling for EFL preschool classroom: tools, activities and themes proposed by preservice teachers. Espiral. Cuadernos del profesorado, 15(31), 82-93. https://ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.php/ESPIRAL/article/view/8087/7028 https://hdl.handle.net/10630/40576 10.25115/ecp.v15i31.8087 eng open access Universidad de Almería