Storytelling in Teaching Listening Narrative Text

    Storytelling can be used to develop listening comprehension skill. A teacher can tell a narrative text and then ask the students to recall the important events in the order of their occurence (Tidyman, et al., 1964). When students listen to a narrative text, the students pick up the information in order to comprehend the narrative text. Comprehension can be described as that process which enables the receiver to make meaning from verbal and non-verbal information. Non-verbal information may include background knowledge based on past experience or visual information. By storytelling, the teacher can give exercise on listening skill.