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Storytelling: how to develop Listening in Chlidren Aged 8 at 10 in EFL classroom

Abstract:

Storytelling and listening skills can benefit foreign language learners since they are used by teachers in education in order to help students acquire a foreign language. We know the four skills (listening, reading, speaking and writing) are important in the foreign language learning process; however, in our opinion, listening is the most important skill to develop when the students learn another language, since we are listening all the time in our daily lives. We should adequately develop the listening skill in our students. Storytelling is an effective tool to improve the listening skill in children. Therefore, teachers have to consider storytelling as an important motivating teaching resource, since it has the power of enriching and making people interactive in the English class with students, especially when working with children because they enjoy learning English through stories, so their learning will be easier. Using storytelling in the EFL classroom will help children to develop the listening skill. In this way, they are going to enhance the development of vocabulary, thinking and interaction between teacher and students. The purpose of introducing stories and activities in the classroom is to give teachers a good material to develop the target language effectively.