Story Telling as a Language Teaching Device

Abstract

The art of story telling must be as old as the Homo Sapiens or at least as old as when man first began to talk. It demonstrates his instinctive desire to observe, to imagine, to create, to compare, to crystallise abstract thoughts, to draw parallels, to record events, to praise, to condemn, to teach, to imitate and, perhaps most gratifying of all, to entertain.