HOW TO KEEP YOUNG LEARNERS OF ENGLISH HAPPY AND FOCUSSED. GRAMMAR THROUGH STORIES
HOW TO KEEP YOUNG LEARNERS OF ENGLISH HAPPY AND FOCUSSED. GRAMMAR THROUGH STORIES

Summary/Abstract: Teaching through stories is a method as old as the language itself, but it is rarely (if ever) used in teachingschool subjects, including languages. Although numerous teachers grew up with stories and used thisaccessible instrument in order to discover the world around them, to learn new things and to stimulatetheir imagination, once become adults they seem to have forgotten how much stories influenced theirlives and their personal development. Nowadays, children may learn new things by using far moreattractive sources of information and that is why stories tend to be replaced by television shows forchildren or by animated movies which help children of all ages learn and better understand variousscience-related aspects, facts of life and facts of nature. Nevertheless, since most knowledge is acquiredby students from textbooks, shouldn‟t this teaching tool be adapted to their needs and abilities? To bemore specific, shouldn‟t textbooks be structured so as to allow the teachers working with young learners,in particular, to teach new and abstract notions through stories? The present paper will demonstrate thatyoung learners of English may be kept happy and focussed if they are given the chance to learn grammarthrough stories. Teachers play a very important role as they have to use their imagination in order tocreate plausible stories and appropriate materials for further practice.

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