In every EFL classroom, there are always students who are active and some silent, because each student has different skills in expressing their thoughts of using English as a second language. Based on the reasons above, appropriate media to deal with silent students is needed, which is Digital Storytelling. Therefore, the objective of this study is to identify silent students' engagement in the EFL-speaking classroom through Digital Storytelling it has three research questions and they were: What are the reasons the students become silent in the EFL-speaking classroom; How does the engagement of silent students in a Digital Storytelling project; How responses from silent students toward Digital Storytelling. The subjects of the study were silent students in the seventh semester of the English Education Department at one University in Bandung. The participants of this study were ten students and the sample was selected by using a purposeful sampling technique based on the researchers' need to get the finding. The data were collected through a questionnaire and video observation. The results show that the students were more engaged in learning the speaking process by using Digital Storytelling. In conclusion, Digital Storytelling is recommended to be used to improve students' engagement in learning to speak.
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