A Study of the Use of Narratives in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners

Autor/inn/en	Fojkar, Mateja Dagarin; Skela, Janez; Kovac, Pija
Titel	A Study of the Use of Narratives in Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Young Learners
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 6 (2013) 6, S.21-28 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; English (Second Language); Second Language Instruction; Second Language Learning; English Teachers; Teacher Surveys; Elementary School Teachers; Teacher Attitudes; Personal Narratives; Story Reading; Story Telling; English Teacher Education; Elementary School Students; Student Attitudes; Slovenia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English language lessons; Teacher; Teachers; Englischunterricht; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrerverhalten; Erlebniserzählung; Schülerverhalten; Slowenien
Abstract	The article reports the findings of a survey, conducted among primary school English language teachers in Slovenia, aimed at revealing their attitudes towards the use of narratives in teaching English as a foreign language to children aged from eight to nine years (3rd and 4th grades respectively). The research results show that most teachers use narratives when teaching English, generally once or twice per month, and that teachers who do not use a course book in the classroom employ storytelling or story reading techniques more frequently than teachers who follow a course book in their teaching. Despite the fact that the teachers participating in the study are aware of the importance of narratives in teaching English as a foreign language to young learners, there is still a lot to be done concerning the selection of the narratives, the narrating techniques and the post-narration activities. Proper teacher training for teaching a foreign language to young learners could address most of these issues. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01