Empowering English Language Learners with Storytellers: Teaching Methods and Activities

Dongil Shin , Keumsun Kim , SeHee Kim 지음

제이콥 아카데미 2020년 08월 03일 출간

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In our everyday lives, we speak and hear stories. We read and write stories. We create, deliver, and perform on the Internet. The Power of story-telling is available to everywhere, and everyone has stories to tell.

It is also well-known that storytelling is a powerful pedagogical tool, including for development of oral language in classroom. Speakers at the advanced proficiency level can demonstrate solid and sustained ability in providing lengthy narrations and detailed descriptions in all time-frames and with strong control of aspect. They can participate actively in most informal and some formal settings on topics of personal and public interest. Most learners of English, however, often experience increased errors, diminished fluency, hesitation, and silence, when they perform narration and description tasks. This book is planned for novice and intermediate speakers of English to practice full stories, cohesive oral paragraphs, and timeframe consistency in group works.

Storytelling can enhance language learners to appear more human, approachable, and likeable. It can quickly capture people’s attention and get them to listen to what you have to say. This book incorporates the information and research that has validated the meaningfulness of storytelling in second language education, and it reflects what we, Storytelling Research Group at Chung-Ang University, have tried and learned over the past ten years. This book is dedicated to all the researchers in the Group. On behalf of myself and my co-authors, I would like to thank them for providing the inspiration for many of the activities in this book and for their enthusiasm and patience.

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How to use this book
Key
Task Modes
Module 1 Action-based Storytelling
Unit 1 Daily Activities
Lesson 1 Listing Daily Activities
Task 1 My Favorite Day
Task 2 The Daily Routine of People
Task 3 True or False?
Task 4 Storytelling Practice: Retelling 'My Weekly Routine
Task 5 Writing ‘My Weekend'
Worksheets for Student
Lesson 2 Connecting Daily Activities
Task 1 And Then
Task 2 And Then What?
Task 3 Picture Cued Daily Routine
Task 4 Storytelling Practice: Retelling ‘My Daily Routine’
Task 5 Recording ‘My Daily Routine’
Worksheets for Student
Unit 2 Actions of the Characters
Lesson 1 Describing Actions
Task 1 Action Verbs for Storytelling
Task 2 Guess My Action Verb
Task 3 Family Trip
Task 4 Storytelling Practice: Retelling 'Family Trip'
Task 5 Writing ‘My Most Memorable Vacation’
Worksheets for Student
Lesson 2 Talking about the Past Experience
Task 1 Places and Actions
Task 2 What Happened Last Summer?
Task 3 Every Day Actions
Task 4 Storytelling Practice: Retelling ‘My Most Memorable Vacation’
Task 5 Recording ‘My Most Memorable Vacation’
Worksheets for Student
WS 1-2-2-5
Unit 3 Sequence of Events
Lesson 1 Making a list of the Major Story Events
Task 1 What is Story Mapping?
Task 2 Story Mapping Practice I
Task 3 Story Mapping Practice II
Task 4 Storytelling Practice: Retelling 'Short Stories'
Task 5 Recording ‘Short Stories’
Worksheets for Student
Lesson 2 Learning the Flow of the Story
Task 1 Voice Variation Practice - ‘I Lost My Homework’
Task 2 Alibi
Task 3 The Alibi Game
Task 4 Storytelling Practice: Role Play 'Suspect vs Policeman'
Task 5 Recording ‘The Alibi Game’
Worksheets for Student
Unit 4 Causal Relationships
Lesson 1 Creating a Believable Story
Task 1 Perfect Match
Task 2 A Good Match?
Task 3 First Date
Task 4 Storytelling Practice: The Interrupter
Task 5 Recording ‘My First Date’
Worksheets for Student
Lesson 2 Talking about the Cause and Effect
Task 1 Fortunately Unfortunately
Task 2 Complai

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저자(글) Dongil Shin

Dongil Shin, Ph.D., is a professor of applied linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. After completing his doctorate degree at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he has taught and researched storytelling practice, discourse/narrative analysis, and language assessment, mostly in Korean contexts.

Keumsun Kim, Ph.D. received her doctorate degree from the Department of English Education at Chung-Ang University. Her main fields of research are storytelling practice and narrative analysis for young learners. She also has considerable teaching experience at primary school contexts.

SeHee Kim is an English instructor at Yuhan University in Bucheon, Korea. Her area of teaching and research focuses on enhancing the speaking proficiency of adult students learning English as a foreign language. She is currently completing a Master’s degree in English Language and Literature, specializing in storytelling at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.

저자(글) Keumsun Kim

저자(글) SeHee Kim