Using Storybooks to Teach English to Young Learners

This thesis would try to analyze and understand whether or not the use of stories will be beneficial to the children. The findings tried to help us to understand if the use of stories stimulated the children to learn the English language, and would stories increase the perception of the students towards the English language. The study was conducted at Alasya Primary School in Northern Cyprus, in total thirty two primary children aged between ten and eleven which contributed to the study. The participants were surveyed during interview with observation in the classroom, questionnaire. The researcher’s field notes were also included in the study. The questionnaire and interview questions were adapted from Gardner (2004). The interviews and questionnaire had been held one by one and due to the age of the participants. The method of analysis was statistical and Descriptive. The interviews were taped, copied and converted into English by the investigator. Using the statistical package 22 the findings were implemented. The overall results showed that the stories had a positive impact on the learners and that they motivated towards the lesson. According to the outcomes of the study, some implications for teaching and further research are suggested. Keywords: stories, motivation, young learners, motivation, cultural variances