What is it about, and who is it for?
This is a course for anyone who is interested in learning how to apply oral storytelling in a language teaching context: language teachers, educators, storytellers who work with language learners, or even parents / home educators.
We will specifically focus on stories, techniques and activities to use with children, but that can easily be adapted to teach other age groups.
What will we learn and why?
Stories make language learning fun and engaging for our students. But not only! When learning a foreign language, stories provide a meaningful context to learn new words and structures, as well as one to see the language in action.
We’ll learn how to implement the use of stories, storytelling-related activities and techniques to make language practice more engaging, fun and meaningful for our learners.
In particular, we’ll focus on:
- the use of expressivity to engage our listeners;
- using chants, songs and repetitions to help memorise words and structures;
- the steps involved in preparing a story for a language lesson, as well as how to get ourselves and our listeners ready for the story;
- how to follow up on a story with story-related activities;
- how to create stories with our students;
- how to involve our students mentally and physically in the story to boost their learning.
When and for how long?
The course will take place on six consecutive Tuesday evenings* (from 22nd October to 26th November) from 7:00pm to 9:00pm Italian time, for a total of 12 hours of synchronous learning.
In addition to this, you can expect more or less the same amount of hours in asynchronous learning tasks, set by the course tutor.
[PLEASE NOTE! The current Italian time zone is GMT+2, but it’s going to change to GMT+1 on 27th October. Please take this into consideration if your country doesn’t adopt Daylight Saving Time]
* If you’re interested in taking the course but the time and / or day of this one doesn’t suit you, please do contact me to express your interest – it may be possible to create new groups!
Where does it take place?
The course takes place online, on Zoom.
How much does it cost?
The price of the course is 180€ (this includes 12 hours of synchronous learning + 12 hours of asynchronous tasks + recordings of the sessions).
If you have any questions, of if you’d like to register to the course, please send an email to simonasstories@gmail.com
There are a total of 12 places available on the course.
If you are interested in taking part, but can’t afford to pay the registration fee, please get in touch for options on discounted/free places: in each of my courses, there are 2 such places on offer.