We might theorize that storytelling is experience. This is both life experience and linguistic experience. The story mirrors the surrounding world and constructs a reality of its own, meeting the cognitive, psychological and emotional needs of the child. The Russian psychologist Zaporozhets pointed out that storytelling gives a child a play-like experience. The experience that storytelling offers is not only personal experience, it is a universal experience encompassing world cultures.
Any story offers a cultural experience.
A fresh look in the 1980s at the interconnection between culture and language has opened up a new dimension for foreign- language teaching methodology. In early language teaching, storytelling can be one of the main tools for children to become culturally literate. Like learning a foreign language, stories create a new image of the world. The advantage of a story, as Garvie sees it, is that it is structured. It follows a course of development that is predictable.