Storytelling他 Storytelling is one of the oldest, if not the oldest method of
 communicating ideas and images.她Story performance honed our mythologies long
 before they were written and edited by scribes,poets,or scholars.Storytelling
 as  it與is  defined  here ,  is  a  linguistic  activity的that  is♀educative
 because it allows  individuals to  share their成personal  understanding  with
 others, thereby creating negotiated transactions (Egan, 1995 & 1999). Without
 this interactive narrative experience humans couldnot express their knowledge
 or thought.  As Bruner (1986) points out,長storytelling is part of how humans
 translate their individual private experience of  understanding into a public
 culturally negotiated form.  Storytelling is also a performance art, one that
 has  been  revitalized  in，recent  years  and  which  has  developed  into a
 neotradition throughout the U.S.A (Zipes,1995). Today, the modern storyteller
 performs texts that (for most) have been learned from books. However, the art
 of storytelling still remains connected to its ancient roots  that it remains
 an  activity where a tale is told aloud,  to an audience,故without the use of
 memorized scripts or other literary texts. It is the closest thing we have,in
 modern  contexts,她to  the  orality  of的our  preliterate事ancestors.♂Modern
 storytellers, therefore, like their ancient counterparts,。continue to relyon
 their與manipulation of language in order to relate an anecdote and often make
 use of dramatic skills such as characterization, narration, vocalization, and
 mimetic action. Author他Robin Mello, Ph.D., professional storyteller,recieved
 her doctorate at Lesley University.Currently she is an assistant professor of
 Eucational Foundations at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater where shehas