TY - JOUR TI - Storytelling and its effectiveness in developing receptive skills among children AU - Iluk, Jan AU - Jakosz, Mariusz TI - Storytelling and its effectiveness in developing receptive skills among children AB - The study was conducted at the University of Silesia within the group of approximately 100 children from three kindergartens and one primary school where storytelling was applied to teach German. The following paper focuses on the analysis of the applied storytelling technique and gives a detailed description of the results. Of particular importance in the case of the following study is the long-lasting effectiveness of the adopted teaching technique. The article describes how this particular teaching technique has influenced the children’s attitudes towards the target language and culture. It also affords some fresh insights into the process of teaching an FL to children. VL - 2017 IS - Volume 134, Issue 4 PY - 2017 SN - 1897-1059 C1 - 2083-4624 SP - 337 EP - 352 DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.17.024.7098 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-linguistica-uic/article/storytelling-and-its-effectiveness-in-developing-receptive-skills-among-children KW - storytelling KW - affectivity KW - receptive skills KW - verbal behaviour KW - lexical item