Keyword: «efl contexts»

Storytelling is known to have officially infiltrated educational contexts several decades ago, even though it has always been an integral part of educational activities: people telling each other stories in order to share information. Storytelling has proven to be an efficient teaching method, enabling educators to achieve a variety of goals, from learning bits of vocabulary and grammar to developing students’ creative thinking and communicative skills. This article gives a short overview of the theoretical foundations of this teaching method, explores the benefits of implementing it in EFL contexts, and reveals the findings of our first research on storytelling.