“Creating fun”: Humor and Storytelling in Communicative Foreign Language Teaching
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2022
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Though much literature exists on the use of humor in the foreign language classroom, the majority
of it focuses on very specific types of humor, and exists mostly in the form of pedagogical manuals.
This thesis uses a theoretical framework derived mostly from Krashen’s theories of second
language acquisition to review different language teaching methods and the ways in which humor
can be used to make them more effective and investigates through interviews the ways in which
language educators attest to using humor in their own classrooms. It concludes that, though
dynamic and unpredictable, humor is doubtless an asset in the foreign language classroom and
educators should seek to use it in order to make students more comfortable and lower their
Affective Filters while learning a second language.