Developing the listening skills through fairy tales in kindergarten children aged 4-5 at “Risas y Caricias Dreamers"

Abstract

Our research study is based on Listening skills through Fairy Tales for teaching and learning English as a foreign language to young children.Listening is one of the most important skills when learning a language, for this reason, it is important to encourage students from a very early age. Our contribution is to help them communicate ideas through the environment in which they live in. Besides this, we want to use them to create a fun and interesting environment where they can feel confident to participate in class through fairy tales trying to develop some abilities and skills. These Tales are considered fantasy stories. They are stories for children, and they often have imaginary creatures and wonderful adventures. Fairy tales are funny, fantastic and colorful. Also, they have an important role in children’s imaginations. Finally, fairy tales are a great technique to help children to develop listening skills in English. In the learning process teachers are facilitators. For this reason, a booklet was made and fairy tales were selected and activities created in order to motivate children to learn English. These activities can easily be applied in the EFL classroom in order to enhance children’s listening skills as well as their participation in the learning process.