STORYTELLING AND LEARNING GO HAND IN HAND. 

 

The aim of this article is to examine storytelling as an educational tool, to delve into its powers, the skills it requires and the activities it can lend itself to. The article consists of 4 parts and in this first part we will be looking very briefly at the history of story telling, the reason why stories are powerful, how story telling relates to teachers and why teachers are  hesitant to use this tool despite its educational value.  Parts 2, 3 and 4 will disclose some of the secrets of story  telling techniques,  elaborate on what makes stories memorable, disclose the structure, the patterns and morphology of stories and  illustrate some  activities to be used by teachers of English. Storytelling fast backward. Societies worldwide always used story telling as the prime means of communication. Homer, Jesus Christ, Walt Disney, dressed their messages in stories.