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Learning Through Stories

The document discusses using stories and themes in the foreign language classroom. It notes that stories have an independent existence outside the classroom and create different demands for teachers. Stories are an oral activity designed to be listened to and participated in, and good stories are ones that listeners enjoy.

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Learning Through Stories

The document discusses using stories and themes in the foreign language classroom. It notes that stories have an independent existence outside the classroom and create different demands for teachers. Stories are an oral activity designed to be listened to and participated in, and good stories are ones that listeners enjoy.

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Stories and themes: start from materials and content that

have a more independent existence beyond the classroom.

Bringing the world into the classroom by using stories and

themes creates different demands for the foreign language teacher.

Story telling is an oral activity, and stories have the

shape they do because they are designed to be listened to and, in many situation, participated in.

Parallelism

Rich vocabulary
Alliteration

Contrast
Metaphor Intertextuality Narrative/ Dialogue

A good story is simply one that listeners or readers enjoy. Children need to be able to enter the imaginative world that the stories

creates. Many stories for children include fantastical beings or animals in imaginary worlds, but this characters and settings usually bear enough resemblance to children and their real worlds to imagine them. Stories that have qualities of content, organisation, and language use are potentially useful tools in foreign language classroom, since they have the potential to capture childrens interest and thus motivation to learn, along with space for language growth.

Real books or specially written ones?

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