Storytellling as a strategy to build up vocabulary in preschool children at “Unidad Educativa Santa Mariana de Jesús” school

Abstract

The present monographic research was carried out with the purpose of implementing storytelling as a useful methodology for teaching English as a Foreign Language among four year-old preschool children. Teachers who have never used storytelling before may face some trouble and misconception about its use, application, results and impact on teaching. For this reason, the research will seek to set up storytelling as a strategy to enhance communicative skills, especially speaking, in order to help children produce the target language spontaneously. It also suggests that teachers use oral and visual aids to grab the students’ attention in order to motivate them in the learning process and leave an outstanding and lasting result. Finally, the research covers the basics of storytelling for its use in the classroom. It will provide some theoretical concepts, analysis of data, and recommendations for teachers when theyapply storytelling as a valid input in the classroom.