ABSTRACT
This chapter presents findings from a case study regarding an out-of-school global storytelling project that links English language learners in a Northwestern Chinese site with global peers through digitally mediated engagement. As part of a transnational project, Global Story Bridges, learners designed and produced digital stories of their lives and communities and posted them to the project website; youth in other sites watched and responded online with questions and comments. This research considers the role of digital platforms in shaping young learners’ multimodal design and communication across time and space. Findings demonstrate the power of transnational digital storytelling in fostering multimodal design spaces for English language learners, and how the students’ design processes transformed the multi-layered digital spaces.
