The Use of Storytelling to Teach English Adjectives for Kindergarten Children: a Narrative Inquiry

Lembar Pengesahan tidak disertai tanda tangan dosen pembimbingThis paper proposed the use of storytelling to introduce English adjectives for kindergarten children. This was an action and qualitative research. Investigation was intended to know how far storytelling might help teacher in teaching adjectives for kindergarten children. The participants of this study were fifteen children - a class all together - of five to six years old in Pantekosta Kindergarten, Magelang and they learnt English as a foreign language. There were six times teaching and the children were given a story in each meeting. The inquiry was narrated from teacher’s personal journals and experts’ point of view. Eventually, this paper resulted positively. It was proven that storytelling offers fruitful contributions in the process of adjectives teaching, which are: providing such a relaxed atmosphere; providing a meaningful context of language learning; helping children to be concentrate; and attracting children in learning through gestures, voice intonation, repetition, recalling, and pictures