The project is specially designed for local primary school children to enable them to gain confidence in reading, writing, comprehension and oratory skills in English, Cantonese and Putonghua through a multi-tiered storytelling competition. Throughout the competition the students would have opportunities to hone their language skills, demonstrate their language proficiency and garner their public-speaking and story writing confidence.
Tell A Tale Children’s Storytelling Competition
aims to promote biliteracy and trilingualism among primary school students in Hong Kong in a fun and interactive manner. It amalgamates the art of storytelling with language-based writing and oratory skills.
- Encourage students to articulate and extend their language learning ability;
- Motivate them to express their thoughts in writing;
- Develop self-confidence and public speaking skills among the students;
- Enhance fluency in speaking and comprehension of language-based texts;
- Inspire students to adopt creative ways in speech delivery and linguistic expressions; and
- Enable students to demonstrate their trilingual oratory skills to a wider audience.
