Digital Multisensory Storytelling as Educational-Didactic Methodology for Emotional Literacy

The learning process can benefit from the role played by a functional development of socio-emotional skills, in which digital and multisensory components can support the promotion of this. Literature demonstrates how digital storytelling is an educational and didactic model that supports emotional engagement and active learning (O'Byrne et al. 2018). The integration of multi-sensory stimuli in learning contexts influences the strengthening of information in memory and transmits emotional signals, thanks to the activity of amygdala (Matos et al. 2015). Based on scientific evidence, this research compares the level of emotional recognition in two different narrative methodology: traditional storytelling, proposed to a control group, and digital multisensory storytelling, proposed to an experimental group. This study, conducted on a sample of 49 children aged between 3 and 5 years, demonstrated that the digital multi-sensory storytelling influences positively the ability to recall the emotions felt by the protagonists of the story. The present research represents a deepening of a previous research which showed higher ability to recall the story orally and greater emotions in children during the retelling in digital multisensory storytelling (Chierichetti & Tombolini 2023).