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IMPORTANCE OF STORYTELLING IN ENGLISH CLASSES
Qodirov Murodiljon
student of Ferghana State University
Abstract:
Storytelling is an activity that passing the information from one to
another by their own words and opinion. There are some benefits of this activity and it
can motivate students for their psychological world.
Key words:
storytelling, story, oral interactions.
Introduction.
Storytelling shows some benefits, especially storytelling as a pedagogical tool. It
can motivate students, help children
in memorizing words learned, improve their
vocabulary mastery, encourage children to learn English, increase their moral value,
provide inexpensive media in teaching rich language experience, and enhance students’
interest in reading. Moreover, storytelling is categorized as one of teaching techniques
that enable Asian EFL students in elementary and secondary school to enjoy reading
and writing and to build students’ interest in literacy and learning English. It means
that storytelling can be an alternative way to enhance student’s literacy in an EFL
classroom.
Not only in EFL setting, storytelling is also substantial in ESL setting.
Storytelling is able to stimulate ESL students to be more enthusiastic during learning
process in England. Furthermore, storytelling is important to improve students’
listening and writing skills. It means that storytelling is apart of literacy practice that
may influence students’ language proficiency. Literacy practice has some important
characteristics, such as to develop language and brain, to practice logical and critical
thinking, and to apply value or moral. Relating to EFL context, English should be a
medium to develop students’ literacy in Indonesia. Thus,
it is essential for EFL
educators to reconceptualize the teaching of English in order to bring the betterment
and improvement of students’ literacy in Indonesia. One alternative way to increase
literacy in Indonesia is through the use of storytelling in the classroom. Basically, there
are several benefits that can be gained by secondary students and teachers through
storytelling in teaching literacy, including reading and writing.
The benefits and
challenges are described as follow
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Stories are an ideal tool in learning language as they guide us through our whole
life. So, not only learning our mother tongue, but also other foreign languages through
stories can make our effort more interesting, amusing and memorable. Students have
an amazing ability to absorb language when activities are familiar and enjoyable to
them. Teaching foreign language on the base of storytelling is exactly the activity
which is both familiar and it is fun Stories are for all of us, not just for children, that is
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why using them in teaching adolescents is as important as using them in teaching young
children. Stories can attract students’ attention, because they provide challenging topics
based on their everyday interests such as love and friendship. They also provide a huge
space for fantasy and creativity. Stories may link English with other subjects across the
curriculum, which I demonstrate in my theses. They teach students to think. All skills,
functions and structures may be taught by stories.
Vocabulary, pronunciation and
creativity may be developed.
As learners of a foreign language, children have
their own psychological
characteristics, which are different from those of adults. These characteristics include
their ways of thinking, their attitude, their aptitude, et cetera. This should, of course,
influence the way they are taught. To give them the best quality of English teaching,
their teachers need to know and understand the children. Pre-school children are in a
sensitive period for language development. They absorb languages effortlessly and are
adept imitators of speech sounds. Because they are very self-centered, they do not work
well in groups, and they respond best to activities and learning situations relating to
their own interests and experiences. Although they have a short attention span, they
have great patience for repetition of the same activity or game. Preschoolers respond
well to concrete experiences and to large-motor involvement in language learning. The
pre-school age group corresponds, according to Egan, to the mythic educational layer,
the characteristics of which are as follows:
The mythic layer: Ages 4 to 5 through 9 to 10 years:
•For these early elementary-school learners, emotions have primary importance.
The students always want to know how to feel about what they are learning. They make
sense of things through emotional and moral categories (e.g., good versus bad, happy
versus sad, etc.).
•Young children are drawn into a topic or an idea through simple polar opposites.
For example, they find it hard to resist the appeal of very tiny versus really huge,
freezing 21 cold versus burning hot, a wicked witch versus the perfect princess, and so
on. Once presented in this way, concepts can be developed by filling in between the
poles.
•The world of the imagination is vivid and real to these children, so they move
easily in and out of a world where animals talk or activities take place on a magical trip
to another world.
•Learners in the mythic layer often believe that the world thinks and feels as they
do.
•These learners interpret the world in terms of absolutes, in the same way that a
fairy tale world operates. The wicked witch is all bad; the daring prince is all good.
•Using story form is the ideal approach for teaching mythic layer learners. Like a
fairy tale, instruction should have a clear and strong beginning, middle, and end; it
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should introduce things using strong opposites; it should address absolute meanings;
and it should have strong emotional and moral appeal. Although it does not have to be
a story, instruction should incorporate these strong story elements
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