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Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching English Idioms for Engineering Students to Enhance Proficiency

Sinduja B and Mathivadhana P, Department of English, School of Science & Humanities, Kongu Engineering College, India

Online First : 30 December 2020

Publisher Name : IJAICT India Publications, India.

Print ISBN : 978-81-950008-0-7

Online ISBN : 978-81-950008-1-4

Page :337-340

Abstract


Language is a powerful weapon which can make or mar a scenario. To update such a language, we need to enlarge the linguistic skills. Teaching is successful, when the appropriate methodology is chosen according to the concept. This paper caters the best pedagogical tool to learn and teach English idioms for L2 learners of engineering students in an efficient way. Storytelling aids the learners to comprehend and remember the idioms easily. Storytelling method for teaching idioms is suitable from kinder garden children to scholars. Basically, learning idioms is not a piece of cake; this is the tenet of students. This paper will break this myth and make L2 learners of English to love English idiom usage willingly.

Keywords


Communication Skill, Idioms, Pedagogy, Short Stories, Proficiency.

Cite this article


Sinduja B and Mathivadhana P, “Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching English Idioms for Engineering Students to Enhance Proficiency”, Innovations in Information and Communication Technology, pp. 337-340, December 2020.

Copyright


© 2020 Sinduja B and Mathivadhana P. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.