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The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing storytelling method on improving EFL 9th-grade students' speaking and listening skills in English language. To achieve this goal, 60 students were randomly allocated into two groups; each group consisted of 30 9th grade students at Hind Bint Abe Omaya Basic School in Zarqa city in Jordan for Girls at the First Directorate of Education in Zarqa, during the first semester of the academic year 2021/2022. An experimental group was taught using storytelling, while a control group was taught by using the regular instruction. The students were given a pre-test then after 20 classes they sat for a post-test to guarantee if they had any improvement in their speaking and listening skills after the experiment, and to observe if the storytelling method had an impact on the experimental group. The pre/post-test was carried out in English classroom at Hind Bint Abe Omaya Basic School in Zarqa. The duration of the study lasted for 45 minutes, three times per week for two months. The study results showed that the experimental group performed significantly better than the control group in the two English language skills: speaking and listening. The findings also revealed that storytelling content effectively activated the imagination of the students and enhanced their concentration and attention. This, in turn, attracted the attention with the images of the narratives being told and the expression of words. Accordingly, employing storytelling method at schools was recommended as a weekly school class in Jordan