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TEACHING ENGLISH THROUGH STORYTELLING
Abstract
Stories provide a common thread that can help unite cultures and provide a bridge across the cultural gap…
The presented article deals with the benefits of using storytelling in the classroom. This method of teaching is rather captive and it has really a good drive among the students. The article is constructed on the shared experience with a famous storyteller and teacher-trainer Michael Berman.
We often give stories to our students to read, but how often do we tell them a story? One can hardly find a person, who was not brought up on the stories, told by the grandparents or parent. Sitting at the fireplaces or bedsides, stirring childhood’s rich imagination, and travelling on the paths of imaginary world like Alice in wonderland or Harry Potter… if it was not so, some others, perhaps, used to read fairy-tales and myths, folklore, legends or real stories.
We hope the readers and learners would agree with us, that childhood ‘s stories stay in mind for ever ,as the first impression and experience you have got at your young age is unforgettable and the most impressive knowledge of the world and life! For this reason, we think that teaching the foreign language through the storytelling is the most interesting and impressive way for successful learning the language.
Thus, the article looks at the benefits of storytelling and gives advice on performance techniques
• What can storytelling offer?
• Storytelling and intercultural understanding
• Other benefits of using storytelling in the classroom
• Commonalities of cultures around the world
• Performance techniques
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References
- Reference 1: Professor Nino Dvalidze shared us very capturing method of storytelling. She illustrates one of the story, taken from Georgian folklore. Then she suggests the concrete questions and some interesting activities in order to elicit the content and main idea of the story; What is more important, she motivates the students to create their own stories and make the Journal entries; Do the presentations and in result Develop all the four necessary skills for learning the English Language successfully. The Author of the article is a follower of the famous storyteller Michael Berman. Prof.Nino Dvalidze and Michael Berman compiled a course-book “Teaching English through Storytelling” where many interesting stories are included from different cultures and folklore. Such books really help to fill the informational gap between different cultures and causes more empathy to other nations habits and history.
- reference 2.Professor Nino Dvalidze’s article deals with one of the popular and driving method of teaching English through storytelling. Generally we give the students new texts to read, to translate, to analyze, to interpret, but we seldom tell them stories. Students like listening to different stories; they are entertained as in their childhood by hearing the new stories, amused and motivated to learn new words, to retell the texts, do suggested different kinds of exercises and write their reflection. They answer different questions, which a teacher asks. In result, develop their listening, writing and speaking skills. Thus, prof. Nino Dvalidze’s article “Teaching English through Storytelling” is rather actual and original work, which will bring many benefits to the University students.
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Other Fields of Education
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Nino Dvalidze
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Georgia
Publication Date
January 7, 2023
Submission Date
November 5, 2022
Acceptance Date
November 21, 2022
Published in Issue
Year 1970 Volume: 8 Number: 24
