Abstract This study investigated the effects of story telling on the oral English teaching in primary school. To this end, 185 students from 4 classes in Hangzhou Xuejun Primary School were selected to finish a questionnaire. The questionnaire mainly focuses on what types of stories do students like and after learning, to what degree they can retell or act out the story and by what means. What’s more, the observation of a story class named “Guess How Much I Love You” helps to provide the procedure of how a story can be taught and how many ways students can adopt in order to be familiar with stories, tell stories and eventually apply what they have learned in stories in the daily communication, thus improving their oral English. Results of data analysis revealed that story telling do have some positive effects on students’ oral English. Finally, the researcher raises some suggestions for story teaching in primary schools according to the classroom observation.60567

Key words: story: story telling: oral English: story teaching: primary school

小学故事教学对英语口语教学的影响

摘  要本论文旨在研究小学故事教学对英语口语教学的影响。为此，我们对185位学生进行了问卷调查，这些学生来自杭州市学军小学三年级和五年级四个班级。此次问卷调查主要研究学生喜欢的故事的类型，听完故事后，学生能否复述或者表演故事，以及他们复述或者表演的方法。此外，“猜猜我有多爱你”这节故事课的课堂实录提供了英语故事教学的过程和学生为了熟悉故事，讲述故事，将他们所学应用于日常交流最终提高口语能力而采取的多种方法。文件调查数据分析的结果显示故事教学对学生的口语能力确实有正面的、积极的影响。最后，我们也根据课堂实录对小学故事教学提出了一些建议。

毕业论文关键词：故事；故事讲述；口语；故事教学；小学

Contents

1 Introduction 5

1.1 Story 6

1.1.1 Definition of “story” 6

1.1.2 Resources of “story” 6

1.1.3 Functions of “story” 7

1.2 Story telling 7

1.2.1 Definition of “story telling” 7

1.2.2 Functions of “story telling” 7

1.3 Introduction of the present study 8

2 Method 10

3 Result 10

3.1 Result from the questionnaire 10

3.2 Result from the observation of the classroom 16

4 Discussion and conclusion 18

4.1 Analysis of the result 18

4.2 Suggestions for story teaching 21

4.2.1 Suggestions on adapting English stories 21

4.2.2 Principals of story teaching 22

4.2.3 Suggestions for story teaching implementation in Primary School 23

5 Conclusion 26

References 27

Appendix 29

1 Introduction

The U.S. psychiatrist Watzlawick (1967) and his team workers once said, “no matter how one may try, one cannot not communicate.” (Sun, 2009). Language is a tool of communication which plays a significant role in our daily life. Without language, we human beings cannot deliver information to each other, as well as exchange our own ideas with others. Therefore, our life would not have been what we live now. As a result, language is one of the most powerful weapons one may own when in communication.