This seminar introduces BA EFL students to creative, story-driven approaches to language learning, with a special focus on sound play, story-based language chunks, and task-supported storytelling. Participants will explore how stories—oral, written, multimodal, and improvised—function as powerful tools for meaning-making and language development in the English classroom.
Across the seminar, we examine how sound, rhythm, intonation, and phonological play support listening skills, pronunciation, and playful experimentation with language. Students will learn to identify and teach high-utility lexical chunks that naturally emerge from stories and to design tasks that help learners internalize those chunks through meaningful use rather than mechanical practice.
We will explore key principles of story-based teaching, including narrative structure, character voice, tension and sequencing, and the language of storytelling (e.g., discourse markers, temporal expressions, or formulaic expressions).
This seminar is highly interactive, creative, and practice-oriented—ideal for future teachers who want to bring energy, imagination, and narrative magic into the EFL classroom.
- Dozent*in: Julia Fuchs