Practice of English Instruction Incorporating Jigsaw Story Retelling Activities

Abstract

Setting up story retelling in English lessons can allow learners a large amount of time to engage in learning English. It also orients learners’ attention to both the meanings and forms of the language. Thus, story retelling can have a variety of effects on language learning. The author conducted English language instruction combining the jigsaw story retelling with subsequent output activities for first-year students at a technical college. The purpose of this study is to consider a teaching method incorporating jigsaw story retelling, and whether jigsaw story retelling can encourage learners to generate their opinions in the following output activities.