Kanazawa JALT:

Conversational Storytelling

Date: Sunday, June 17th, 2001 Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Speaker: Robert Jones, REJ English House

Description:
An awareness of the typical features of conversational story structure can provide a basis for students to develop and improve their own storytelling ability. This presentation will look at some of these features of conversational storytelling (personal experiences, friends' misfortunes, funny incidents, "scary" stories) and explain how written transcripts can be used to raise students' awareness of their features. The presenter will then show how this awareness can be used to help students develop and improve their own storytelling skills, with ideas on easy ways to help students start telling their own stories.

Organization: Kanazawa Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Kanazawa JALT)

Cost: free

Venue: Kanazawa Shakai Kyoiku Center, 3-2-15 Honda-machi

Location: Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

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