Enhanced listening through storytelling by Sylvia Guinan
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
Steven Covey
In English language teaching….
What is listening?
What is comprehension?
And what about self-expression?
Heart of listening
Feel &
reply
The many flavours of English• Narrators, writers and different accent from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract one
Russian Dolls (A)
Narrator Michael Gyori: Germany/Hawaii
Writer Sylvia Guinan
Russian Dolls (A)
Short extract
Percival Crabtree woke up feeling anxious and agitated. This wasn’t unusual. In fact, this was how he felt whenever he had nothing to worry about. Not having problems was kind of alarming. It could mean that he was losing his memory, or worse still, that the doom-filled prophets of his mind were finally on strike.
The many flavours of English• Narrators and writers, and different accents from
the storytelling listening extracts.
Extract two
Russian Dolls (B)
Narrator Sylvia Guinan: Ireland
Writer Sylvia Guinan
Russian Dolls (B)
She’s too sunny for this shady neighbourhood, and his misery loves the kind of company that no rosy cheek can ever give him”
The many flavours of English• Narrators, writers and different accents from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract three
How the shiny fall
Narrator Kerstin Hammes: Germany, England
Writer Kerstin Hammes
How the Shiny fall
• When I was very new, I was the darling of the whole shop.
The many flavours of English• Narrators, writers and different accents from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract four
Survival
Narrator Chaouki Mkaddem: Tunisia
Writer Chaouki Mkaddem
Survivor
Once upon a time there was a n old lion
The many flavours of English• Narrators, writers and different accents from the
storytelling listening extracts.
Extract five
Get a life
Narrator Jason R. Levine: United States
Writer Jason R. Levine
Get a LifeI got to know this kid when I got to junior
high
Ideas for class
• Your course book• It can actually be a
source for story inspiration.
• The main reason why course books don’t engage us is because we don’t experiment, adapt and build upon them.
• A typical course unit:VocabularyGrammarThemes/topics
• Take the words students are learning and turn them into oral or digital story telling tasks.
Digital listening activities
• For digital activities I use ClubEFL for making listening quizzes. You can make quizzes and games from audio stories, record your own voice for the quizzes or your students can make their own quizzes and share them with other children all over the world.Here are some very short stories and verses for children.
Should you tell stories in class?
What would prevent you from telling stories in class?
How is it different from using standard materials?
Here are some extra sources for stories and pronunciation practice
Britlit
Younglearners
Mario Rinvloucri
The inner workings of the storyteller’s art
Natural English
Oral listening activities Bringing life into the classroom.
Listening through social and emotional learning.
Have different kinds of informal storytelling sessions where you pick topics and share stories in small groups or whole class, while giving student specific listening instructions.This is great for linguistic and social listening and you can use this time for relationship building or discussing problems that students may have. You can also cleverly
Encourage subconscious use of target language being learnt in a natural way.
Make belief Comix
• I’m devoting a slide to this website because it bridges the gap between digital and oral story-telling and between functional and social/emotional learning.
You can use comic prompts for amazing oral story-telling activities to enhance listening in class. You can also use lots of other listening games or communication activities with make belief comix..
Listening and speaking
Listen and express
Kids can make their own comics, listen and share.
Some voice recording tools
• Audioboo• Fotobabble• Voki• Blabberize• Vocaroo• Audacity• Screenr
Some video-making tools
• Go animate• Smilebox• Eduglogster
• With eduglogster students can video record themsleves speaking about a topic on an electronic poster they design themselves. Then they all share their stories – listening and stort-telling.
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