ストーリー・テリングを通して中学生の情動を動かす指導

―小学校から継続して身体性を育てるために―

抄録

Storytelling is one of the main tasks in English activities at elementary school. Young children pay attention not to analytic rules, but to the content of the stories with their physical and mental senses and with their own imagination. Therefore, there is a strong possibility that storytelling might keep students' processing English language holistic at junior high school. This paper reports the practice of an emotive storytelling which is developed with devices enough to be appropriate to the cognitive level of the students at adolescence. It is concluded that storytelling has the power to stimulate the students' body and mind, and even to broaden students' insight into global understanding.