Wright, CZ;
Dunsmuir, S;
(2019)
The Effect of Storytelling at School on Children’s Oral and Written Language Abilities and Self-Perception.
Reading and Writing Quarterly
, 35
(2)
pp. 137-153.
10.1080/10573569.2018.1521757.
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Abstract
This study explored whether being told stories by a teacher in school 4 days a week for 10 weeks would lead to improvements in 6- and 7-year-old children’s oral language, written language, and self-perception. We also explored whether these improvements would be greater than those experienced by an active comparison group that was read the same stories from books and a comparison group that continued with their usual classroom literacy practices. We used a quasi-experimental between-participants design: 194 participants took part, and classes (rather than participants) were randomly assigned to intervention conditions. Results showed that the storytelling group retold stories that were significantly longer and used a significantly wider range of vocabulary than both the group that was read the same stories and the comparison group at posttest and 3-month follow-up. The story-reading group scored significantly higher on an oral vocabulary test than the comparison group at follow-up.
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