Telling Stories Through Creative Movement - An Approach in Language Learning

Abstract

Telling stories is an everyday affair. Pupils come to school with stories to tell their friends - what they did yesterday, what their parents told them and what they saw on television.

Teachers should exploit this in helping students to acquire language. Vocabulary can be expanded if the lesson is properly planned. Thinking skills can be practised and oral fluency enhanced when a consistent effort is made to enhance pupils' story telling skills.

Some teachers use books as take off points in using stories in the classroom. As a variation, creative movement in Physical Education could be brought into the language classroom and used as a stimulus for story telling. After all, it is about time we make inter-disciplinary efforts to promote better learning.