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Download full textHendrickson, James M. – 1992
Telling and listening to stories is an ancient tradition that can benefit foreign language learners of all ages, languages, and levels of proficiency. Stories contain linguistic, paralinguistic, discourse, and cultural features that provide the comprehensible input and output that students need to develop their conversational skills. Instructors…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cultural Context, Language Acquisition, Listening Comprehension
