Notes from Lu Haiyun’s lecture “Everything Can Be a Story”.
The importance of Storytelling
Storytelling is the oldest form of education. - By Terry Tempest Williams
How stories are used in a language classroom?
Storytelling & Storyasking (Refer to Justin’s lecture)
Today we focus on storytelling.
Storytelling: Fiction & Nonfiction
Note: Teachers from international schools should also take different cultural background into consideration and corporate stories from different resources.
Linguistic Features of Nonfiction
Teachers should also make some adaptations of these stories.
Strategies of storytelling:
1. Story listening.
Features: use short sentences; draw pictures and write down key words while telling the story.
Skills: It’s a chicken. It’s a roasted chicken.
This is to reduce students' brain workload. Don’t say “It’s a roasted chicken”.
If the teacher doesn’t ho w to draw, she can ask a student who is good at drawing to help. The teacher can choose a hard-working and artistic student to draw, in order to boost the student’s confidence, but don’t speak too fast.
OR you can make PPT for students’ better understanding.
2. Story time.
The teacher can tell students' inspiring stories to encourage them.
E.g., Nonfiction - Biography - Basketball girl 钱红艳 (Handout attached)，Bethany Hamilton, Malala Yousafzai (youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize).
How to find events?
Types of Storyasking
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