The main purpose of this Master’s Thesis is to show how students of English as a foreign language can develop sensitivity to foreign (i.e. target-language) cultures through storytelling, using stories from different cultures, as well as to provide teachers of English with teaching activities based on these stories.
The first part of the thesis gives a theoretical background on storytelling in general, and on the benefits of using storytelling and literature in EFL teaching. It explains why it is beneficial to teach culture through storytelling and why teachers of foreign languages should deal with developing (intercultural) communicative competence.
The second part offers five stories from five different English speaking cultures, each accompanied by a collection of pre-, while-, and post-reading/listening activities whose main aim is to develop students’ cross-cultural sensitivity. The skills students develop with these activities are also thoroughly explained.
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