Storytelling as a Method of English Teaching: the Topicality and Pedagogical Reasoning Within the International Research
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Storytelling as a method of instruction constitutes a significant social phenomenon in the framework of effective communication and better scholarly understanding.By introducing the interactive academic environment and applying the communicative approach to English teaching, the instructor involves the students in non-traditional learning, provides a way to easily master the linguistic structure, phonetics, grammar as well as vocabulary, and allows the communicative linguistics, creativity, and reflective storytelling to happen.The very technique and its pedagogical power were studied within the context of the international research, with close attention being paid to the scientific works by Abrahamson, Bruner, Finkel, Garvie, Green, Herreid, Mutonyi, Owen, Ruscher, Simmons, and Widrich.The information was chronologically arranged as well as interpreted within the academic topicality and empirical pedagogy.Apart from the aforesaid, the best-known and most interesting examples of the storytelling were described; a few recommendations on its successful application were mentioned.Considering the possibility of any further research, we stated that the concept of storytelling is underdeveloped in Ukraine and thus may be scientifically appealing to the domestic researchers in the framework of interactive English teaching.The very article aims at defining storytelling, analyzing the international findings, pinpointing the scholarly works, designating the pedagogical power of stories, describing their multidisciplinary nature, studying various techniques, highlighting a few popular cases of English storytelling, summarizing the attributes of the storytelling, providing some recommendations on its successful application, and encouraging the fellow instructors to use the method whilst teaching.
Authors: Oleksandr LADA, Inna VARVARUK, Tetiana MARSCHAL
Institution: King Danylo University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4403798264