Storytelling in Libraries and Play Centres for Education Students: A Work Experience from Service-Learning Methodology

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Moisés Selfa Sastre, Montserrat Nòria Jove, Enric Antoni Falguera Garcia 
(Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Lleida, Spain)

Abstract: Storytelling — communicative and narrative competence that future teachers must develop, especially in Childhood and Primary Education period — is one of the communicative abilities that teachers have to acquire for daily use on their future job. Not only the publisher market has considered this genre as a motivational type of texting for written and oral language learning, but also Primary Education teachers have used it to present different knowledge fields. In this sense, listening, knowledge and activities derivative from storytelling must become into a positive and gratifying experience, not only for students but above all for teachers who will use it along their professional career.

Key words: storytelling and the service-learning methodology, development of reading competence and literacy, learning and teaching