Telling “time” and “space”: Linguistics and cultural contents for learning and teaching oral skills

Abstract

This research addresses initial teacher training on language teaching from an intercultural and plurilingual approach. The paper pursues two objectives: 1) to analyze the lexical and semantic components from traditional stories and their relations with cultural knowledge; and 2) to propose strategies and activities to teach and learn orality. The concepts of TIME and SPACE are studied from an onomasiological and cognitive approach. An ethnographical research is developed based on a corpus of stories from diverse cultures (created ad hoc), the monitoring of storytelling sessions, and interviews with a professional storyteller. The first findings are samples of lexical contents, as well as learning strategies and activities, all of which of interest for teaching storytelling