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DRAMA IN THE SECONDARY EFL CLASSROOM Dr. Andrew Finch

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DRAMA IN THESECONDARY EFL

CLASSROOM

Dr. Andrew Finch

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Implications for using drama in the ELT classroom:

Drama in EFL teaching:

1.provides a variety of contexts for language use;

2.creates contexts with feeling, meaning and motivation;

3.brings us closer to ‘real’ experiences because it engages us in human, fictitious contexts;

4.helps us not just to use language but to experience our use of language

You Have a Big Mouth 03:44

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Benefits of drama in language teaching:

1. Aside from direct benefits for learning English, creative drama makes students more skilled and more rounded individuals.

• A three-year study funded by the Guggenheim museum in 2006, Teaching Literacy through Art, showed that including arts education increases literacy skills in elementary school students.

• Students involved in these programs also "scored higher onexpression, risk-taking, creativity, imagination and cooperative learning."  

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Benefits of dramain language teaching:

2. Plays provide practical experience in communicating.

3. They give children the opportunity to learn to work together and to be part of something, to belong in a group and to develop tolerance and empathy as they begin to see the world from different perspectives. 

Middle School English play 01:27

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Benefits of drama in language teaching:

4. They promote active learning, enriching and reinforc-ing their more traditional school experiences.

5. Most children are excited by the idea of performing in front of others. 

6. In terms of teaching English as a second language, drama and children are a winning combination.

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Benefits of using drama in language teaching:

7. Authenticity. Using drama enables children to use English in real conversations.  

8. The conversational use of language in an EFL play promotes fluency.

• While learning a play, children listen to and repeat their lines over a period of time.

• By repeating the words and phrases they become familiar with them and are able to say them with increasing fluency.

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Benefits from using drama in language teaching:

9. EFL Drama teaches children to enunciate their words and to project their voices, helping them to become clear and confident speakers. 

10.Drama helps to improve the understanding and retention of language.

• By the time a child has read, rehearsed and acted a scene using the phrase "I've forgotten my..." there is little likelihood of ever forgetting how to use it in context.

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Benefits from using drama in language teaching:

11.Active participation in an EFL drama involves intellect, imagination and emotions.

12.By encouraging self-expression, drama motivates children to use language confidently and creatively. 

High School girls practice for

drama skit 01:15

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Benefits from using drama in language teaching:

13.Drama encourages different learning styles - visual, auditory, kinesthetic and tactile.  

• Hearing the lines, seeing the actions, feeling the props, acting out movements and using expression all make the lesson a far richer one.

14.EFL plays are ideal for mixed ability groups.

• Children whose language skills are limited can be given fewer lines, or they can be communicate using nonverbal cues such as body movements and facial expressions.

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Psychological Benefits

• We get involved with putting on a play, as well as learning English.

• We have fun, and the students learn by doing.

• The students get great joy out of performing.

• The audience, even the mothers and fathers who don’t speak English, are delighted to see the performance.

• We give the students a taste of success.

• Through Drama, English becomes a living experience of communication.’

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Tips for using Drama in the ELT classroom

1. Pre-teach the vocabulary first. • Use it in songs and in games; chant the words, stamp

out the syllables, act them out individually - this is really fun when using words describing emotions and actions.

Hanil English Drama

Team, part 1 05:43

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Tips for using Dramain the ELT classroom

1. Now teach the key phrases. 

• Once the children are familiar with the separate words let them start practicing the lines in the play. 

• These short sentences can also be practiced in games.

• The idea is not to have individual children word-perfect in their own roles but to let the whole class experience using the sentences and vocabulary in context.

The Disobedient Frog

05:34

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Tips for using Dramain the ELT classroom

3. Rehearse. 

• When all the children know the key words and lines of the play you can put together all the elements - words, expression and movement.

• Allow the children to use their own creativity in setting the scene, deciding on props, costumes etc. Handout:

Alice in Wonderland, Chapter VII:

“A Mad Tea-Party

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Tips for using Drama in the ELT classroom

4. Keep props simple. 

• Remember that these should be kept very simple, using the "less is more" principle, and they only need to be included in the final rehearsals.

Mr. Fixit’s Repair Shop

04:48

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More Tips

5. It is absolutely vital to put on a performance, even if it's to the class next door, because it allows the children to feel the satisfaction of showing their work.

6. Performance - warm up:

• Start with the pupils singing a group song or two

with actions, play some vocabulary games in front of the audience finish with the play.

• This helps the children get used to suddenly being in front of an audience and will mean they are much less likely to freeze up with nerves when saying their lines.

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More Tips

7. Take a video of the play, if you can.

• Not only will the children love seeing themselves act, it will serve as useful revision whenever the children watch the play. 

• It will enable you to give them feedback later

• A recording of one of your plays is a testimony to your success as a teacher.Superheroes

09:44

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Thank you, and finally . . .

• “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.” (As You Like It, Act II. Scene VII.)

이 모든 세상은 일종의 무대와 같아 , 모든 남자와 여자들은 단지 배우에 불과하지 .

그들은 그들만의 퇴장과 입장이 있어 , 그런데 한 남자는 살아가는 동안 여러 가지

배역을 맡아서 하게 되지 .

• Laughter is the sign of comprehension.