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- Title
A consciousness-raising approach to the teaching of conversational storytelling skills.
- Authors
Jones, Robert E.
- Abstract
Anecdotes and personal narratives are frequently heard in day-to-day human interaction, and it would, therefore, seem reasonable to conclude that the teaching of storytelling skills should feature as a component in second language conversation courses. After outlining the generic features of one frequently heard story type, this paper goes on to describe a consciousnessraising activity involving a picture story and story transcript designed to raise learner awareness of some of the linguistic realizations of these features. We then consider how this activity may be supplemented by other activities which encourage students to make use of this growing awareness, and generate the type of language which will help them develop their own conversational storytelling ability.
- Subjects
STUDY &; teaching of storytelling; SOCIAL interaction; CONVERSATION
- Publication
ELT Journal: English Language Teaching Journal, 2001, Vol 55, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
0951-0893
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/elt/55.2.155