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Stories are a powerful way of helping your students improve their language skills

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Mark Chapman MEd Mark Chapman MEd

Mark Chapman MEd

Advance your English (B2 to C2) | English for marketers | Interview skills.

发布日期: 2018年7月18日
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Using ESL stories for teaching English is a very good way of helping students learn language more deeply and naturally. Here are ideas on storytelling in the classroom...

There are so many reasons for using stories in the classroom. Just as salespeople and politicians attract people to their products and ideas using stories - if they are wise - so too, can English teachers attract students, particularly young learners, by using stories.

It's not just a matter of using ESL stories to attract students; better and deeper learning takes place using this very natural method. Adults might be attracted to true stories, or interesting incidents in people's lives. When teaching English to kids, both interesting true stories and fiction work well. Poems and rhymes also work well, but I plan to write about these separately... read more at my blog: Tesol Zone

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