Use of Storytelling Method to Improving Skills of Primary Students in District Bannu
Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of integrating the storytelling method in primary schools in district Bannu, Pakistan. It was particularly interested in assessing how storytelling impacts primary school students’ language skills and analyzing how storytelling impacts primary school students’ creativity and classroom engagement. The study adopted a quantitative descriptive survey research approach. The population comprised primary school teachers, and 121 teachers were sampled through the L.R. Gay Formula. Data collection was done using a self-formulated questionnaire that had items rated using a five-point Likert scale (Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Agree Nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree). Data collected were analyzed in SPSS and presented using means and standard deviations.
According to the primary school teachers surveyed, storytelling is an excellent method for improving primary school students’ listening, speaking, and vocabulary skills and for improving students’ ability to understand what is spoken and for enhancing students’ ability to present their understanding or thoughts verbally. The respondents believed that storytelling helps enhance students’ creativity and imaginations and facilitates primary school students’ participation, and interest and attention in class. Storytelling helps students understand complex concepts and enhance primary school students’ moral values. The respondents faced challenges such as the shortage of time and the need for training. Participants strongly supported storytelling in primary school curriculum.
Storytelling in the classroom fosters academic, social, and personal growth in students. Integration of storytelling should be a primary teaching method at all levels of the educational system. This includes professional development for storytelling at the administrative levels, the inclusion of tasks or activities dependent on storytelling in the textbooks of curriculum writers, and, finally, the provision of needed teaching aids to ensure storytelling at the primary level of education.
Keywords: Primary Level, Primary School Students, Language Skills, Teaching Method, Storytelling, Creativity, Engagement.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22211360
