STORYTELLING TECHNIQUES

Subject: DRAMA AND LITTERATURE

Task: Commenting Andrew Right´s Conference

Mr Wright is an excellent person and has specialized himself in Storytelling. Here is what I have found most relevant.

Story bag. Story jacket. Story hat. Drawings. Andrew Righ is always looking for visual support.

He starts making funny jokes that follows the interest of children, Like when two cats are born from his jacket...

He looks at his watch and tell us that he hadn´t fed the crocodile yet (the croc lives in his jacket too) 

There where in a middle of a big story and a forest… there were 12 big wolfs and two cats... He tells us an abstract story: it´s made up by children.

He explains what children can do. They should use what they´ve got when they are learning English. They shouldn’t make up one story in their own language and then translate it. They have to use what they have got.

He talks about feelings, not methodology. This is what he considers important:

1.-Why stories are so important

2.-How stories affect us

3.- Stories as central path in the classroom.

4.- Using stories in language teaching

He tells another story from Duncan Williamson, Once upon a time, about a white kitten convinced that she´s black. She will become a witch’s cat. The story is beautiful, and the end of it is made up by children.

We need stories to do things we´ve never done before....

He also talks about his childhood in II World war.

Summary

Stories are not just for children. We all share the stories, and stories are changing by internet. It´s so motivational, and all the skills are related to the story. We can even tell a story in a no-verbally way. 

Story could and should be a central path in colleges. At least, he mentions Steven Krashen, a linguist, in which class children just read; no comprehensive questions, no tasks… his research had discover that this is the only thing that takes to develop lingual skills.

http://www.sdkrashen.com/