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Sabrina Priego*, Meei-Ling Liaw** 
*Université Laval, Québec, Canada 
**National Taichung University of Education, Taichung, Taiwan
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Listening to the Multiple Voices in Multilingual Digital Storytelling
Bio data 
Sabrina Priego
is professor of the Department of Languages, linguistics and translation 
at Université Laval. Her research interests include French as a second language 
pedagogy, the teaching of writing and the integration of information and communication 
technologies (ICT) in second and foreign language teaching and learning. She is 
particularly interested in e-Tandem learning, multilingual creative writing, and 
multiliteracies. She has published in refereed journals and given talks at several 
international conferences.
Meei-Ling 
Liaw
is professor of the Department of English at National Taichung 
University of Education. Her research focuses on using computer technology to facilitate 
EFL teaching and learning, intercultural learning, and teacher education. Her publications 
have appeared in professional journals including System, Foreign Language Annals, 
Computer-Assisted Language Learning, ReCALL, and Language Learning and Technology. 
She has been serving on the editorial board of Language Learning and Technology since 
2008. She is also the editor-in-chief of Taiwan International ESP Journal. 
Abstract 
In this paper we outline the implementation processes of a telecollaborative digital 
storytelling project between a group of pre-service French as a second language (FSL) 
teachers in Canada and a group of university-level English as a foreign language (EFL) 
students in Taiwan. Based on interview and survey findings, we report the reactions and 
experiences of the participants in terms of what they have gained from the project as 
well as the difficulties they have encountered during the telecollaborative writing 
processes. Particularly, we lean on Bakhtin’s (1981) conception of dialogis
m to analyze 
the jointly created stories and the forum discussions among the participants during the 
processes of creating them. In conclusion, we discuss the challenges and prospects of 
using co-construction of multilingual digital stories via Web 2.0 technologies to enable 
intercultural learning, creativity, and language development, as well as a space for 
voicing selves through creative literary articulation.