Storytelling and its contributions to children's interaction and linguistic development

• Autor(a) principal: de Sousa Melo, Acreciana
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Alves Dias, Adelaide, Pessoa Sampaio, Maria Lúcia, Queiroz Rêgo, Raimunda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Olh@res (Universidade Federal de São Paulo)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/olhares/article/view/11161
• topic: Storytelling; Interaction; Linguistic development; Contação de histórias; Interação; Desenvolvimento linguistico

Telling, listening and retelling stories serve several purposes, especially the intellectual, psychological, linguistic and cultural formation of the human being. This article deals with storytelling, above all, as a strategy favorable to the interactions and the linguistic development of the child. It aims to understand how storytelling enables interactions and children's linguistic development, highlighting its importance in school practices. The research was carried out in four classes of 1st year of elementary school I of a public school in the city of São Miguel/RN. It is based on the assumptions of qualitative research and is characterized as field research. Semi-structured interviews with the four teachers were used as an instrument, as well as the non-participant observation of four storytelling sessions in the form of theater, developed in the classes by the Walking Library and Literature in Schools Program - BALE Micaelense, an extension program at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte that aims to stimulate the taste and pleasure of reading. The results indicate that storytelling contributes significantly to the process of interaction and development of children's linguistic competence, in addition to arousing the imagination through the ability to listen, participate, retell and express. We conclude that this art is, therefore, an important strategy of mediation and stimulation in the face of the children's educational process.