Competency-based ELT: Learning to learn through our Storytelling Circle

Abstract

General consensus exists that storytelling in the early years promotes early literacy development and can help provide a meaningful context for introducing a foreign language. This paper presents a cyclical project which aims to facilitate transition between educational stages by harnessing the pedagogical potential of authentic storybooks throughout the different stages of compulsory education. While providing learners with a real purpose and stimulus for learning English, the Storytelling Circle methodology presented here also develops the transversal competences of the primary curriculum - with a particular focus on the learning to learn competence - as well as the specific dimensions of the foreign language area