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Since times immemorial Storytelling has been one of the oldest modes of sharing emotions, truths and most often an elegant means of communication. Story telling could include skillful imagination or sometimes a slice of real life experiences and incidents. This age old medium of storytelling can be a marvelous tool of enhancing an individual’s communication. All of us know that communication is successful with good spoken skills. In this light story telling can be amazingly instrumental in bringing out the best in a person’s ability to speak well. It is an ancient and valuable art that extends around the globe. Story telling is something we all start doing at a young age. Storytelling involves a two-way interaction between a storyteller and one or more listeners. It is about using stories to engage your audience, or to make something more clear. Storytelling is everything you are saying from the first sentence to the last which leads to a singular goal.
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Much before people learned how to write, they would tell each other stories. Storytelling can improve students' speaking skill. The first way to do the interaction and communication is by speaking. Applying story telling technique in speaking can generate interest, motivation to speak and share ideas with their friends in groups. Storytelling improves the speaker’s comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. As a social being, people always interact and communicate with one another. Storytelling is a technique to develop multiple skills like power of imagination, confidence, fluency, problem solving attitude, team work. Story telling enhances the student’s ability to speak English in terms of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, fluency, and comprehension. Most of the times speakers find it difficult because of lack of ideas, vocabulary and also sometimes for the lack of a chance to speak. Applying story telling technique in teaching could improve students’ interest and motivation to speak and share ideas with their friends in groups. It is evident that Story telling has an immense potential to bring out the best from the story teller in terms of Critical thinking, analysis, creativity, Art of questioning and Language building. The best attribute that can be given to storytelling is it can cut across all cultural barriers around the globe while encouraging appreciation and tolerance to the same. Storytelling can be seen as a foundation for learning and teaching. While the story listener is engaged, they are able to imagine new perspectives, inviting a transformative and empathetic experience. This involves allowing the individual to actively engage in the story as well as observe, listen and participate with minimal guidance. Listening to a storyteller can create lasting personal connections, promote innovative problem solving and foster a shared understanding regarding future ambitions. The listener can then activate knowledge and explore new possibilities.
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Story Telling, Communication, Enhancing Speaking, Verbal & Non Verbal Skills
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"Story Telling as a method to improve Language Skills", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.c710-c714, April-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2304289.pdf
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2456-4184 | IMPACT FACTOR: 8.76 Calculated By Google Scholar| ESTD YEAR: 2016
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