STORYTELLING
Introduction
The famous Jonathan Gottschal (2017) said, “We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories”.
In other words people are surrounded by stories and pictures all over the day. Even when it seems that the brain has a break during the night, it still produces pictures, processed stories and changes it into dreams. Stories are told all the time and people are not even aware of that. When people ask how the last weekend was, the answer will probably be a story. Storytelling includes so many vital abilities such as connecting people, develop awareness, empathize, reflect, analyze, imagination, communication etc.. Especially children love to …show more content…
Andrew Wright (2008) states that, to understand a story young English learners do not have to get every single word to like it. The teacher can always help the children to understand the plot by supporting the story by showing pictures or using mimes while telling what happens. It makes it a lot easier for children when the teacher makes use of their visual and auditory senses. The teacher is also able to simplify the words to make the story more understandable for the pupils, for instance it can be used “quickly” instead of “in a flash” or “ate” instead of “had been eating” (Andrew Wright, 2008). The goal is to make the story understandable for children but not to simplify every word and the whole story. The teacher has to make sure that the story is one step beyond the pupils’ level so that they can learn something from …show more content…
An idea to let them move and speak a little bit during the story is to let them participate in it. Let them add their own thoughts and ideas into the story. To do that the storyteller has to be creative to make something out of the new information. Storytellers can also involve the children by letting them act out the happenings. Acting out always makes fun and the children have to understand the story to make the right movements, also to let the children respond or repeat sentences makes them feel more excited about storytelling. To make storytelling more realistic teachers can use different kinds of objects for example costumes masks, pictures or puppets. Those things make the story even more interesting and real, especially when the storyteller is able to change his voice by using a puppet (Andrew Writght,
Introduction
The famous Jonathan Gottschal (2017) said, “We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories”.
In other words people are surrounded by stories and pictures all over the day. Even when it seems that the brain has a break during the night, it still produces pictures, processed stories and changes it into dreams. Stories are told all the time and people are not even aware of that. When people ask how the last weekend was, the answer will probably be a story. Storytelling includes so many vital abilities such as connecting people, develop awareness, empathize, reflect, analyze, imagination, communication etc.. Especially children love to …show more content…
Andrew Wright (2008) states that, to understand a story young English learners do not have to get every single word to like it. The teacher can always help the children to understand the plot by supporting the story by showing pictures or using mimes while telling what happens. It makes it a lot easier for children when the teacher makes use of their visual and auditory senses. The teacher is also able to simplify the words to make the story more understandable for the pupils, for instance it can be used “quickly” instead of “in a flash” or “ate” instead of “had been eating” (Andrew Wright, 2008). The goal is to make the story understandable for children but not to simplify every word and the whole story. The teacher has to make sure that the story is one step beyond the pupils’ level so that they can learn something from …show more content…
An idea to let them move and speak a little bit during the story is to let them participate in it. Let them add their own thoughts and ideas into the story. To do that the storyteller has to be creative to make something out of the new information. Storytellers can also involve the children by letting them act out the happenings. Acting out always makes fun and the children have to understand the story to make the right movements, also to let the children respond or repeat sentences makes them feel more excited about storytelling. To make storytelling more realistic teachers can use different kinds of objects for example costumes masks, pictures or puppets. Those things make the story even more interesting and real, especially when the storyteller is able to change his voice by using a puppet (Andrew Writght,