Storytelling as a method of efl teaching

Conclusion
Stories educate, illustrate, enlighten, and inspire. They give relief from the
routine and stimulate the mind. They are a great motivator for teachers as well as for
students. Stories are used in an exclusively positive scholastic setting, i.e., no grades, no
failures, no textbooks, no notepads, no dictionaries, no costly audiovisual equipmentnothing coming between the listener and the teller. Storytelling is learned slowly over along time, but the novice and the expert storyteller can both experience success ondifferent levels. A storyteller eventually makes a personal collection of stories forvarious occasions and purposes. Storytelling is a folk–art which can't be manipulated,intellectualised, or mass-produced. Its magic is unique. The storyteller is always ateacher, and the teacher is always a storyteller. All teaching methods and suggestions inthis article may be adapted to different grade and proficiency levels depending upon thetype of literature chosen.


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