'LANGUAGE ACQUISITIONAL STORYTELLING': PSYCHOLINGUISTICS IN ACTION IN THE ITALIAN EFL CLASSROOM
| Autor: | COSTENARO, VERUSCA |
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| Jazyk: | italština |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| DOI: | 10.15162/1970-1861/201 |
| Popis: | The aim of the present paper is to analyse the educational activity of storytelling from an innovative perspective: storytelling as a "psycholinguistic" teaching/learning tool, which can effectively facilitate the acquisition of English as a foreign language by presenting a story through the main stages of acquisition of English as a first language. The educational context where this new teaching/learning strategy is proposed is the class of English language/culture in Italian primary schools. In particular, a new typology of storytelling will be here presented and examined, under the definition of "language acquistional storytelling". This teaching/learning tool can enable teachers to expose their pupils to simple stories in English, in which the language is gradually construed through the main stages of acquisition of English as a first language, and is at the same time adapted to the specific context of teaching/learning English as a foreign language. In the course of our discussion, some examples derived from an English children's book "There's an Alligator under My Bed" by Mercer Meyer will be offered. Alongside, this teaching/learning proposal intends to suggest some creative activities and games which can help pupils understand, employ, internalize and reemploy the language forms and rules that are inductively introduced by the teacher in the course of the narration itself. Studi di glottodidattica, V. 2, N. 3 (2008) |
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