Stories in ELT: Telling tales in school

This presentation looked at four types of stories that could be told ‘in school’: two for use in supporting language learning and two for supporting language teacher learning. Stories were told and theoretical arguments for their use made – including the argument that the interactive, contingent, context-specific and one-off experience of being told stories (which cannot be rendered in a written paper) is likely to have a different (and perhaps greater, in the transformative sense) impact than any more academic argumentation or explanation.