Magic beyond words: A teaching experience of english language storytelling with J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone

• Autor(a) principal: Szezecinski, Antonio Filipe Maciel
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Felicetti, Vera Lucia, Spicer Escalante, Maria Luisa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/12231
• topic: Teaching and learning; Storytelling; English Language.; Enseñanza e aprendizaje; Narración de historias; Lengua Inglesa.; Ensino e aprendizagem; Contação de histórias; Língua Inglesa.

This article is a result of a teaching experience done in a state school of Porto Alegre. The objective of this experience was analyzing the possibility of an English teaching practice, based on the storytelling applied in the storytelling time that is linked to the school’s library. For this purpose, it was selected as a story to be told and worked in an elementary school’s 5th-grade classroom, the novel Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling, due to the richness of vocabulary and by the imaginary teased on its reader with its text. From this experience provided by the Storytelling time applied into the English Language, it could be perceived the students’ engagement with the story, the words association present in the story with the ones found on their daily routine, what had provided a corrected learning of the pronunciation of keywords which had been studied.