Paper short abstract

Teachers use fairy tales to stimulate the imagination of students in the process of foreign language acquisition - a combination of image, sound and writing, which is in fact a form of a short fairy tale.

Paper long abstract

Teachers use fairy tales to stimulate the imagination of students in the process of foreign language acquisition - a combination of image, sound and writing, which is in fact a form of a short fairy tale. This is very often applied at the beginners level in foreign language teaching. Examples from Russian and Japanese language classes for foerigners will be given to illustrate how fairy tales find their natural and effective way into the classroom.