Abstract
The upper intermediate level Japanese class involved the creation of Digital Storytelling (DST). The learner, through internal dialog, and communication with others, solidified the themes they wanted to express and to whom they wanted to express them, and, using the features of Japanese as a foreign language, created a DST to express those things that they did not have the opportunity, or were too embarrassed, to express in their native language. This serious of activities was an opportunity for self-recognition experienced by the learner in using a foreign language as "the part of me I can only express in Japanese".
