Storytelling: an Integrated Approach in EFL Classrooms Dr. Hui-Ling Huang (Jessie) Yuntech.

Storytelling: an Integrated Approach in EFL ClassroomsDr. Hui-Ling Huang (Jessie)Yuntech

THE RATIONALE OF STORY-BASED LEARNING AND TEACHING

STORYTELLING

•Exposure to rich but comprehensible input of formulaic speech•Use : language used in various communicative contexts (exchange meanings)•Appealing

英文單字的學習• 連結 (semantic map)•Ball, tree, dog, field, rice, •A dog is chasing a ball under the tree in the rice field.

Semantic Map

THE ELEMENTS OF A STORY(STORY GRAMMAR)•Beginning: once upon a time…•Setting and characters•Problems, conflicts…•Solutions to (conflicts)•Ending

STORY SOURCES

•Folktales (including fairy tales)•Legends •Urban legends•Fables•Family stories•Modern stories

Story title: A Little Red House

SOME KEY WORDS FOR THE STORY•Chimney煙囪•Barn 穀倉•Orchard 果園•Pocket knife •stem 梗

ONE WISH

a folktale from Ireland

SOME KEY WORDS FOR THE STORY•Drought 乾旱•Paddy field 稻田•Ditch 渠•Cradle 搖籃

There was a poor farmer…..

His crops died during the drought

He had nothing to feed his family….

His mother was blind…

His father was ill……..

HE AND HIS WIFE HAD BEEN MARRIED FOR YEARS, BUT THEY DID NOT HAVE ANY BABIES•

He decided to catch some frogs from the paddy field to feed his family…

HE FOUND A MAGIC FROG THAT COULD TALK. THE FROG GRANTED HIM A WISH•

HIS MOTHER SAID, “I WISH I COULD SEE YOU AGAIN..”•

HIS FATHER SAID, “WISH FOR GOLD..”

HIS WIFE SAID, “WISH FOR A BABY…”•

THE FARMER DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO….•

NEXT DAY, HE WENT TO THE PADDY FIELD AND TOLD THE FROG HIS WISH

I wish my mother could see my wife rock our baby in a gold cradle…..

LONG AGO, PEOPLE WORKED IN THE PADDY FIELDS WITHOUT ANY ANIMAL HELPERS.

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LIFE WAS HARD AND PEOPLE WERE HUNGRY ALL THE TIME

THEY CRIED OUT TO GOD FOR HELP.

THE GODDESS OF MERCY HEARD THEM.

SHE SENT BUFFALO TO HELP THEM IN THE PADDY.

BUFFALO DIDN’T WANT TO GO BECAUSE PEOPLE KILLED ANIMALS FOR FOOD.

chicken lamb beef

THE GODDESS OF MERCY PROMISED THAT HE WOULD BE SAFE HOME

BUFFALO WORKED FOR PEOPLE FOR YEARS, AND HE BECAME VERY OLD AND WEAK

PEOPLE KILLED HIM, AND IT WAS TOO LATE FOR THE GODDESS OF MERCY TO SAVE HIM.

THE GODDESS CRIED AND CRIED. SHE CRIED SO HARD THAT HER EYES DROPPED TO THE EARTH AND BROKE INTO PIECES AND TURNED INTO FIELD SNAILS.

THAT IS WHY SOME PEOPLE FROM TAIWAN DO NOT EAT BEEF.AND THE FIELD SNAILS ARE THE EYES OF MERCY.

KEY WORDS TO KNOW

•The Goddess of Mercy觀音菩薩•Field snail田螺

Contact:FB: Jessie Huang

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Books published: www. amazon.com www.bookman.com.tw

Miss Pronunciation Little Tree’s Sideways Dream Folktales from Taiwan