I am the storytelling trainer, Let me put forward my brief idea on storytelling
A.
The
Definition and The Understanding of Storytelling.
Storytelling is the activity of sharing story done
by the storyteller to his or her listeners. In addition to that, Fuji Andayani
(2014:18) writes:
“Storytelling is the conveying of
events in words, images and sounds, often by improvisation or
embellishment. Stories or narratives have been
shared in every culture as a means of entertainment, education,
cultural preservation and to instill moral values.”
For English learners, it is absolutely an excellent preparation
for real life speaking. Storyteller conveys story not only as narrator but also
as characters, it means the storyteller speaks both in monologue and dialogue. Story
telling is the universal
function of language and one of the main ingredients of casual conversation. For
its great power, storytelling has been used as teaching technique in the
English classes as Rinvolucri states:
“Story telling:
the language teacher’s oldest technique claims that story telling is a uniquely
powerful linguistic and psychological technique in the hands of a language
teacher which s/he can use with people of any culture(though the story needs to
be culturally appropriate) and with people of virtually any age.”
In Indonesia especially, Storytelling is put into a
national contest by the Education Ministry in the event named FL2SN and the new
breakthrough is OLSN. It is a remarkable power to improve the students’
creativity, self-confidence, language mastery and the other components
mentioned above.
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