2。 Literature Review

     Since the reform in elementary education curriculum in 2001, a large number of teaching materials of the reform of the course have emerged。 The relation, creation, interaction of the teachers’ new values and teaching behaviors should run through the reform of the requirements。 Throughout history, the story of the appearance of the “story telling” has emerged since the beginning of human history。 In the ancient Greek period, Socrates, Platon and others were always promoting their own point of views by telling stories。 According to the study of the literature, the people who used the “story teaching method” firstly is Piaget, a famous children’s psychologist and educator。

     The definition of story teaching method is given by many experts and scholars both at home and abroad。 Professor William Smith, a famous educational expert, believed that story teaching method is regard as a “barrier” to cultivate the Chinese students’ English listening ability。 The figure, plot, integrity of the story should be in accordance with the characteristics of the development in students’ thinking and can provide extremely vast imagination space for them。 The teachers can use rich and colorful stories or vivid and interesting performances to satisfy the curiosity of children。 In order to let students accept the new knowledge and enjoy the process of learning, teachers can create an atmosphere by changing the plots to keep children interested in learning English or let them immersed in the story。 If the teachers are able to use the stories in a skillful way to attract students’ attention, it must have a great effect on the effectiveness of English study。

     Pederson discussed the relationship between the story and the teaching art and he thinks the story can transmit knowledge and culture in a direct way。

     Bergman in his book “the study of storytelling as a teaching tool” suggested that the story can be used to impart knowledge effectively。

     Michele R。 Devidson specified the functions to explain the concept and he thought the “story telling” equaled to “story teaching”。 He applied this method to specific teaching procedures。

     Ji Yuhua, Professor of Xiamen University, put forward sandwich teaching method based on the years of researches and practice。 It is a method that uses the combination of mother language and foreign language to teach the second language by story teaching。 

     The use of teaching method in the class can create a lively and interesting teaching atmosphere and organize students to carry out language training and English practice。 Through various forms of teacher-student interaction in the teaching process, students are able to participate in all kinds of activities fully through which they can not only understand what teachers and peers say, but also respond to it, that is, to speak in English。 So the students are the listeners as well as the speakers。 文献综述

3。 Different Kinds of Story Teaching Methods

     There are different kinds of story teaching methods。 According to different grade students in primary schools, the teachers can choose different kinds of story teaching method to help the students improve their English levels。

3。1 Sandwich story teaching method

    Sandwich story teaching method is a method that uses the combination of mother language and foreign language to teach the second language by story teaching。 The use of sandwich story teaching method is suitable for the lower grade students in primary schools, making full use of their mother tongue and English together to help students understand the content of the story。 The idea is to take advantage of the children’s love to listen to stories by nature, containing English words, phrases, sentences with the development of the story, from less to more, from short to long, from easy to difficult in the process of storytelling, for example, Daddy dog 发现自己的chair被人坐过了，就大声地喊道:“谁在my chair上坐过?”Mummy dog也大声地叫道: “谁在my chair上也坐过?”Baby dog一看自己的chair 也被人坐过了，就大声哭喊道:“Daddy, mammy你们看，谁把my chair 坐坏了?” With the help of the mother tongue, the sandwich story methodology is able to reduce the difficulty of learning English, thus, it is easier to apply in English teaching。