Using Story as Educational Instrument

 

Story is a narrative that human usually use to tells their experience or a fiction to others. It is impossible to live without a story. Nowadays, stories are very popular in our society. such a film, novel, drama, etc. are one of the forms of a story. Stories also can in education sector, by providing enough reading comprehension, students can improve their knowledge about culture that presented in the stories. According to Book the Art of creative Thinking (Adair, 2007) Reading books might therefore help to stimulate and strengthen your creative thinking abilities. Other way stories also can make the students more active by retelling the stories to other students. Digital storytelling piques the interest of kids with a variety of learning styles, and it may also foster cooperative collaboration and boost students' sense of accomplishment (Reyes Torres, A. et al, 2012).

                In education Story can be used as pedagogical tools for teacher, especially English language teacher, help their students to improve their ability in using English Language. Teacher can distinguish the student ability in reading comprehension by seeing their student telling a story. Hall (2005) said that In his own words, the study – which was a replication of an earlier L1 research – revealed a clear distinction between basic literal comprehension and ‘point-driven' understanding, or ‘higher-order reading comprehension capabilities' in less experienced and less successful readers. Stories are inseparable from culture, and culture also inseparable from language. As a result, culture is an important consideration in L2 teaching and learning (Picken, 2007).

                In conclusion, stories are playing important role in our life. It can be used for many purposes. In education, stories are used for pedagogical purpose or as education instrument. Reading a story can help strengthening students creative thinking abilities. Story can be used in education in many ways depends on teacher creativity. By using story, teacher also can see their student ability by observing their students works or project. Reading story also can help student to improve their knowledge about culture that included in the story.

Adair, J. (2007). The Art of Creative Thinking: How to Be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas (1st ed.). Kogan Page.

Hall, G. (2005). Literature in Language Education. Palgrave Macmillan.

Picken, J. (2007). Literature, Metaphor and the Foreign Language Learner. Palgrave Macmillan.

Reyes Torres, A., Pich Ponce, E., & García Pastor, M. D. (2012). Digital storytelling as a pedagogical tool within a didactic sequence in foreign language teaching. Digital Education Review, 2012, vol. 22, p. 1-18.

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