DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH STORIES

Authors

  • Tran Thi Ai Huong Ho Chi Minh City Industry and Trade College, Vietnam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejes.v10i5.4817

Keywords:

speaking skills, storytelling, English classes

Abstract

Teaching speaking skills is always considered difficult activity. Therefore, choosing an appropriate teaching methodology to help students improve speaking skills is really important. This paper is going to discuss personal experience of taking advantage of stories to enhance students’ speaking skills. Besides, the researcher expects to explore the effectiveness of stories in most of English classes. The researcher also illustrated an example of how to conduct the lesson by storytelling in a real class.

 

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Author Biography

  • Tran Thi Ai Huong, Ho Chi Minh City Industry and Trade College, Vietnam

    Tran Thi Ai Huong is now a lecturer of English at Ho Chi Minh City Industry and Trade College, Vietnam. She has been teaching both English-majored and non-English majored students, who are studying at Ho Chi Minh City Industry and Trade College. Her research interests include speaking skills, teaching methodologies and teaching technology.

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Published

2023-05-06

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 5 (2023)

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