Story as a Vehicle to Promote EFL Learners’ English

Jing DUAN, Yinghui SUN

Abstract


With the increase of the interest in foreign language teaching at early stages over the last few years in China, more and more researchers and teachers devote to teaching English to young learners. They try to find out the most effective way or approach to teach English to young learners and English story teaching is one of them. The paper reviews previous research on English story as a vehicle to promote young learners English as a foreign language in China and the supply with the criteria of selecting a story for young English learner.

Keywords


Story; Vehicle; English as a foreign language (EFL)

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/10619

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