Empowering English Language Learners with Storytellers: Teaching Methods and Activities
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In our everyday lives, we speak and hear stories. We read and write stories. We create, deliver, and perform on the Internet. The Power of story-telling is available to everywhere, and everyone has stories to tell. It is also well-known that storytelling is a powerful pedagogical tool, including for development of oral language in classroom. Speakers at the advanced proficiency level can demonstrate solid and sustained ability in providing lengthy narrations and detailed descriptions in all time-frames and with strong control of aspect. They can participate actively in most informal and some formal settings on topics of personal and public interest. Most learners of English, however, often experience increased errors, diminished fluency, hesitation, and silence, when they perform narration and description tasks. This book is planned for novice and intermediate speakers of English to practice full stories, cohesive oral paragraphs, and timeframe consistency in group works. Storytelling can enhance language learners to appear more human, approachable, and likeable. It can quickly capture people’s attention and get them to listen to what you have to say. This book incorporates the information and research that has validated the meaningfulness of storytelling in second language education, and it reflects what we, Storytelling Research Group at Chung-Ang University, have tried and learned over the past ten years. This book is dedicated to all the researchers in the Group. On behalf of myself and my co-authors, I would like to thank them for providing the inspiration for many of the activities in this book and for their enthusiasm and patience.
Keumsun Kim, Ph.D. received her doctorate degree from the Department of English Education at Chung-Ang University. Her main fields of research are storytelling practice and narrative analysis for young learners. She also has considerable teaching experience at primary school contexts.
