As stated by Jenkins & Lonsdale (2007), digital storytelling has been used in a language-teaching classroom involving encouragement and engagement of students, and establishing students’ social presence for on-line learning, participation and interaction. It is supported also by Carolyn Miller (2014), she said that in the educational area “digital storytelling” is used to mean the employment of still images and a recorded script, and possibly some video or animation, to tell personal stories or stories relating to an element in the education curriculum. Digital storytelling has been used at University of PGRI Adi Buana Surabaya for its fourth semester students and the research reported in the paper will further explore students’ perception on increasing their awareness and improvement in the language skills. Digital stories allow students to take a linear series of events and turn them into a multidimensional experience. It encourages them to communicate, collaborate, and research as well as to infuse media into the process. The research uses voice recording of the students as well as questionnaires to determine students’ perspective. This study presents the benefits of digital storytelling for learning and improving the language skills and is expected to make a contribution to the teaching and learning of English to the learners and also to enlighten English teachers. Keywords: digital story board, youngsters, speaking, writing