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Using Anecdotes in Language Class
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Salli-Çopur, Deniz – English Teaching Forum, 2008
This article discusses the usefulness of anecdotes as a technique to stimulate learners' interest and thus create a meaningful learning context in the second language classroom. It describes the pattern of an anecdote and how it should be formed as well as the different types of anecdotes. The article offers tips to successfully implement this…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Story Telling