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Therefore they can conclude that this aspect will help language learners in several ways such as helping students in acquiring new vocabulary to stick in their mind. 3 Predictability Folktales have two aspects make them predictable when they are being told; the ethical quality that lies and exists behind many folktales and the repetitions of the main events and ideas. 4 Relatively simple grammar The oral tales of folktales somewhat have the simple grammar that makes it easier for low-level learners to understand and comprehend. The more folktales in which they are closest to the oral tradition tend to have more simple grammar. This happens naturally because the sentences in the story tend to be short, the common tenses are simple past and present, subordinate clauses are not very common, the conjunction between sentences and ideas relatively simple such as “and” and “but.” In the more literary forms of folktales, the grammar seemed to be more complex; for the various level of grammatical difficulty means more difficult materials of story, but are still less complex than language people found in essay or academic writing. 5 Concrete vocabulary The vocabulary in folktales tends to be very concrete; things people can smell, taste, feel, touch. The concreteness of the vocabulary is the key of more easily for learners to understand new language, then story will be understood as a whole in turn. In fact, concrete language vocabulary is much easier than abstract one. This can be concluded that folktales are very good in building learners vocabulary for it tends to provide more concrete words in the story. 6 Concrete ideas The concreteness of folktales helps learners to understand the content of the story more easily. Even when they are talking about their native language stories, the simple and concrete ideas seemed more acceptable and understandable. The abstractness and difficulty levels of the ideas affect how hard the text to understand. When the idea presented is easy enough to understand, the learners have more attention to focus on the language used to communicate that idea and they do not spend much energy available for noticing the language and how it is used to convey the meaning. 7 Illustration that provide support and context for the next Illustrations provide information to help the learners know and find out parts of the story that are difficult to understand. More common illustrations of the story are pictures which are considered as useful illustration for much more than this. 8 A unique reader-writer relationship Reader and author in folktales are commonly put in the relationship between two peers. Because the storyteller of folktales regard it is not necessarily an authority on morality or the problems addressed in the story. Finally, stories are seemed subjective rather than factual. This helps learners interact with stories as should interact will all writing. 27 27 Eric K. Taylor, Using Folktales, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, p.9-14