Storytelling for Children in English Teaching as a Method to Encourage Young Learners Practicing English Skill and Enriching Vocabularies
Outline
What : What is storytelling and the advantages if we apply this method in learning English for young learners?
Why : The previous method that often be used in learning English and why should we change the method with storytelling.
Purpose : The final purpose of this method and the advantages using storytelling than another method.
ABSTRACT
Nowadays English is not only owned by its
native speaker, but also it has become the international language around the
world. Every single component of the society including children learns English
these days. Here is the challenge. Teaching English for children cannot be
equalized with teaching teenagers or even adult. Children are active human
being. Playing, listening to the story, and having fun are their world. As a
teacher, we need special method to teach the skills of a language for them. In
this article, the writer tries to propose storytelling as one of the methods to
teach English skill, as the most important thing in a language for young
learner or children. Storytelling is considered suitable to be applied in
teaching to young learners because it is appropriate with their world.
Storytelling contains four skills needed in a language learning, how to
understand the story by listening to the storyteller, how to read the story
well, how to retell the story in front of the class orally, and how to re-write
or make a summary based on the story. Besides, children will find new words in
the story and this can enrich their vocabularies in English.
As
a result, young learners are habitual with English and are able to use English
to communicate with others starts from the very little thing. Here, the
children’s paradigm about difficulty and bored in learning English can be
changed by learning English is fun and easy.
Key
Words: Storytelling for Children, English Teaching, English Skills, Enriching
Vocabularies
