Effects of Storytelling on Improving EFL Students’ Critical Thinking and Reading Comprehension

Susan Hussein Laftah,Yar Mohammad Bahrami Ahmadzai,Javed Sahibzada,Azadkhan Niaz

doi:10.46281/aijssr.v5i1.485

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to find the effects of storytelling (ST) on improving critical thinking and reading comprehension of EFL students at Kandahar University. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with critical thinking and reading comprehension pre and posttests. Total 27 Afghan EFL students were selected based on their performance on Placement test. The participants of experimental group listened to their teacher telling the story. In order to find the improvement and different between these variables is significant the Paired Sample T-Test was administrated and the result indicates that there is significant improvement in post-tests in areas of reading comprehension and critical thinking in group of storytelling. However, improvement is higher in reading comprehension section than critical thinking.

Highlights

As human being we all have somehow experiences of listening to other people telling or narrating us their own or other stories
1.4 Objectives of the Study This study aims to compare the effectiveness of storytelling in improving reading comprehension and critical thinking on adult EFL learners
As mentioned before, the experiential study was conducted in a treatment group of storytelling to find out comparative results on the improvement of critical thinking and reading comprehension

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Introduction

As human being we all have somehow experiences of listening to other people telling or narrating us their own or other stories. Stories have been an attractive and interesting way of getting attentions. The long-life effects of our parents’ stories still existed as unforgettable memories of our childhood. They were telling us different types of stories for various purposes such as; fairy tells to entertain us, bed time tales to make us sleep or in forms fables and parables to motivate us for positivity and avoid us from negative deeds. The constructive parents’ advices in the form stories, have always brought the aptitude and attitudinal change into the lives of children. Attempting to take advantage of the undeniable fun and enjoyment in stories, teachers try to include stories in different classroom activities

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