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STORYTELLING AS A DIDACTIC TOOL TO WORK ON EMOTIONS

1. Storytelling as a didactic tool

Storytelling is the art of telling a story. It has been the first form of teaching, and it fosters emotional intelligence and helps the child to understand more clearly certain aspects of human behaviour. It can be used as a method to teach ethics, values and cultural norms and differences, to share experiences and knowledge. But it is also a social experience because the storytelling connects a teller and a listener. Storytelling also provides a motivational and low anxiety context, which attests an optimal environment for learning.

Storytelling broadens the understanding of language and encourages the creation of their own stories, expanding both knowledge and language skills. The images are in the imagination of each listener, so there is no doubt that the teacher must have sufficient resources to ensure their understanding. In this way, the teacher will get the full attention of the students, who will enjoy and feel motivated giving wings to their imagination.

Modern storytelling has not forgotten fairy tales, fables, folktales, myths, legends, etc. even though, nowadays, it's mainly used to achieve educational purposes. Through stories, not only vocabulary, grammar etc. will be learnt. The narration will reinforce the patience, the listening, the respect, the valuation of the teamwork too. Besides, the students will feel like protagonists in the classroom, gaining autonomy and self-confidence.

Storytelling allows teachers to generate interest and attention among students. As a consequence, and having into account that the story must be the main activity of the lessons, the rest of the activities will be intimately related to it. Stories are effective educational tools. Listeners are engaged, involved and identified to them. This also makes them able to remember them much better.

The skills of the narrator also help the listener to empathize and feel the experience as their own, something that somehow, manages to transform the listener without being aware of it.

The student listens to the story, observes the illustrations, understands it (through the material resources) and progressively manages to participate in it with the guidance of the teacher. Moreover, when creating opportunities to participate in storytelling, we help children to understand the world in an alternative way. But they also enjoy being told stories about themselves. Personal appreciations enrich the narration and create even stronger bonds with the students, who will be learning. Therefore, the personal connotations given throughout the narration will generate a new way of deciphering it.

This is why stories are the wool thread through which the teacher will create a yarn of knowledge since it must not be forgotten that the activities within the classroom will be intrinsically linked to the stories. Interaction becomes crucial and is encouraged through contexts and games, involving target language and grammar structures and it is necessary to assure an emotional link to the learning process.

2. Storytelling As A Teaching Tool

Storytelling is the art of telling a story. It has been the first form of teaching, and it fosters emotional intelligence and helps the child to understand more clearly certain aspects of human behaviour. It can be used as a method to teach ethics, values and cultural norms and differences, to share experiences and knowledge. But it is also a social experience because the storytelling connects a teller and a listener. Storytelling also provides a motivational and low anxiety context, which attests an optimal environment for learning.

Storytelling broadens the understanding of language and encourages the creation of their own stories, expanding both knowledge and language skills. The images are in the imagination of each listener, so there is no doubt that the teacher must have sufficient resources to ensure their understanding. In this way, the teacher will get the full attention of the students, who will enjoy and feel motivated giving wings to their imagination.

Modern storytelling has not forgotten fairy tales, fables, folktales, myths, legends, etc. even though, nowadays, it's mainly used to achieve educational purposes. Through stories, not only vocabulary, grammar etc. will be learnt. The narration will reinforce the patience, the listening, the respect, the valuation of the teamwork too. Besides, the students will feel like protagonists in the classroom, gaining autonomy and self-confidence.

Storytelling allows teachers to generate interest and attention among students. As a consequence, and having into account that the story must be the main activity of the lessons, the rest of the activities will be intimately related to it. Stories are effective educational tools. Listeners are engaged, involved and identified to them. This also makes them able to remember them much better.

The skills of the narrator also help the listener to empathize and feel the experience as their own, something that somehow, manages to transform the listener without being aware of it.

The student listens to the story, observes the illustrations, understands it (through the material resources) and progressively manages to participate in it with the guidance of the teacher. Moreover, when creating opportunities to participate in storytelling, we help children to understand the world in an alternative way. But they also enjoy being told stories about themselves. Personal appreciations enrich the narration and create even stronger bonds

with the students, who will be learning. Therefore, the personal connotations given throughout the narration will generate a new way of deciphering it. This is why stories are the wool thread through which the teacher will create a yarn of knowledge since it must not be forgotten that the activities within the classroom will be intrinsically linked to the stories. Interaction becomes crucial and is encouraged through contexts and games, involving target language and grammar structures and it is necessary to assure an emotional link to the learning process.