Promoting culture in early age through comic, digital story telling and video animation

Promoting Culture in early age through interaction and collaboration are essential in learning English. Collaboration among the students allows them to be more active in communicating. One medium for online interaction is video animation. The purpose of implementing animation in this study is to make interventions to encourage student interaction and cultural awareness. These media also help teachers deliver teaching materials online with technology. We conduct action research to find the proper use of an animation movie for the students. Five teachers were involved in conducting action research in their classes, three of them were in primary school, and two were in Junior High Schools. Video animations about Covid-19 that from an e-book "My Hero is You" introduced by three teachers developed new cultural awareness of the learners about the surrounding virus. A culture of using masks, working online from home, and vaccination are parts of it. Application of comics maker took part in helping students express ideas about the situation. It included indigenous cultural acts and awareness about the differences between cultures they learned from English movies. Digital storytelling (DST) in English created by the students in this study reflected the memories of valuable cultural moments they learned during trips away from school.