PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF STORYTELLING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING
Ключевые слова:
Storytelling, foreign language teaching, communicative competence, learner engagementАннотация
The article explores the effectiveness of storytelling as an innovative pedagogical tool for developing learners’ communicative competence and language skills. The author emphasizes that storytelling creates a natural language environment where students actively engage in listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. Through structured narratives, learners acquire vocabulary, grammatical patterns, pronunciation, and discourse skills in a meaningful context rather than through mechanical drills. The article discusses various classroom strategies such as role-play, picture-based stories, digital storytelling, and collaborative story creation, which promote creativity, critical thinking, and learner autonomy. Special attention is given to age-appropriate story selection and cultural relevance to enhance motivation and emotional involvement
