Using Stories in Language Teaching (with Mario Rinvolucri)

TEFL Training Institute Podcast by Ross Thorburn

Oct 5, 202500:15:00Education

Mario Rinvolucri, author of “Once Upon a Time: Using stories in the language classroom” talk to us about storytelling, one of the “most compelling and ancient of human activities”. For more podcasts, videos and blogs, vi...

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