Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning

Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning
Author: Patrice Baldwin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781350164789

"This book explains why drama works as an enjoyable, social, and emotionally engaged way for children, young people and adults to learn languages, as well as showing how it provides motivating contexts and structures for acquiring and using real language in imagined worlds. The authors present 20 practical, adaptable strategies, based on research and accompanied by exemplar lessons, each designed to engage learners and stimulate purposeful talk within meaningful contexts. Process Drama emotionally engages learners and stimulates purposeful talk, within meaningful contexts. The authors refer to relevant educational, psychological and neurological theories and cite research that helps account for drama's efficacy in motivating talk and supporting first and second language acquisition and the development of important life skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and resilience. They provide a flexible teachers' toolbox of pedagogical drama strategies. Each strategy is explained in detail and linked to a series of step-by-step, detailed, high quality, exemplar lessons, which may be adapted and used flexibly for different purposes and contexts."--

Drama Techniques in Language Learning

Drama Techniques in Language Learning
Author: Alan Maley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1983-01-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521288682

Drama Techniques in Language Learning offers a large selection of techniques for use at all levels which focus learners' attention on communicative tasks or activities. These involve the whole personality of the learner and provide real reasons for expressing feelings and opinions. The techniques require no special training and can easily be introduced into normal course work. This greatly expanded highly successful edition provides: advice on using the techniques in the classroom; 150 ideas for interesting and productive fluency practice; clear instructions for the teacher; and detailed cross-referencing between exercises.

Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning

Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning
Author: Patrice Baldwin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1350164763

This book explains why and how drama works as an enjoyable, social, and emotionally engaging way for young people and adults to learn and use a second language within imagined worlds and develop their 21st century skills. A flexible teachers' toolbox of drama strategies is offered and guidance on how to start using drama for learning with language students. Each strategy is presented in detail and used within the exemplar lessons. The authors refer to relevant educational, psychological and neurological theories and cite research that helps account for drama's efficacy in motivating talk and supporting second language acquisition, whilst developing important life skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and resilience.

Awareness Is Freedom

Awareness Is Freedom
Author: Itai Ivtzan
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1782798528

Awareness Is Freedom: The Adventure of Psychology and Spirituality proposes a unique combination of spiritual and psychological concepts that together lead to greater self-awareness and wellbeing. It is structured as eight lessons, each focusing on different aspects of psychology and spirituality, to support readers in their personal journey of self-growth. The psychological and spiritual theories described in the book are backed up by scientific findings that enhance the legitimacy and power of its message. The book also includes practical exercises which allow the reader to apply the ideas in an enjoyable way that will lead to self-improvement and greater satisfaction in life.

Teaching English with Drama

Teaching English with Drama
Author: Mark Almond
Publisher: Modern English Publishing
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2005
Genre: Drama in education
ISBN: 1904549128

How to teach English language students with drama - for professional English language teachers. This new book covers the exciting sector of teaching English language students using drama, plays and with theatre techniques. The book covers a wide range of subjects for teachers including how to plan class work, choosing appropriate texts, working with students with theatrical techniques, modifying dialogue and lines for different levels of student, stage management, and how these all work together to improve language appreciation and learning; using classic plays, suggested characters; resources beyond the textbook; using stories, songs, games, etc.

Classroom Dynamics - Resource Books for Teachers

Classroom Dynamics - Resource Books for Teachers
Author: Jill Hadfield
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0194426041

This very popular series gives teachers practical advice and guidance, together with resource ideas and materials for the classroom.

Teaching Literacy through Drama

Teaching Literacy through Drama
Author: Patrice Baldwin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2003-08-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134521189

This book provides teachers of children at Key Stages 1 and 2 with a much-needed source of exciting and creative drama-based activities, designed to improve literacy. As useful for the drama novice as for the busy literacy co-ordinator, these flexible activities are designed to help teachers meet National Curriculum and National Literacy Strategy (NLS) requirements, particularly through speaking and listening. The book is divided into three parts: Part 1 looks at literacy and the power of drama as a 'brain-friendly' medium for teaching and learning. Part 2 contains ten structured, practical units of work, each based on a different story, poem, play or traditional tale or rhyme and each linked directly to the requirements and objectives of the NLS and the QCA objectives for speaking and listening. Part 3 contains photocopiable Literacy Support Sheets for teachers to use and adapt for their own classroom needs. All units of work have been tried and tested by the authors, giving teachers a springboard from which to enhance and extend their literacy lessons, and engage the imagination of their pupils. The book is also the ideal resource for student teachers.

Teaching Drama in the Classroom

Teaching Drama in the Classroom
Author: Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 946091537X

This book includes strategies for integrating drama in the classroom through the use of creating characters, giving meaning to activities through answering the questions: who, what, when, where, and why about any person and situation under discussion (5 W's), using storyboards, incorporating music, writing radio scripts, and using literature and movies as prompts for improvised enactments. Students will learn how to create characters and apply those creations to different content-area activities, situations, and subject matter. This useful resource describes more than thirty-five scenarios of teachers and students in early elementary grades through graduate school working together to craft drama events that draw out participants’ creative energies, interpretations of curricular topics, and investigations of social, political, and personal concerns. In all of these lesson plans, students collectively explore topics, concepts, themes, or tensions that surface as they navigate their way through the conditions and experiences that unfold in a scene, skit, improvisation, or in interrelated episodes. Drama techniques include role play, scripting, dialogue, audience participation, improvisation, and the strategic use of interaction, space, movement, and gesture.

Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv

Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv
Author: Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 100034732X

This engaging and complete resource has everything you need to bring drama and theatre techniques into the ESL, EFL, or World Language Classroom. Are your students reluctant to speak out in class? Do they lack confidence in their language skills? The dynamic drama games in this book are the perfect catalyst to transform your students into engaged learners, and help them build confidence and language skills. The interactive theatre games and techniques are specifically designed for use in Second, Foreign, and World Language classrooms to empower students through meaningful, agentive language learning. With over 80 activities and games, and hundreds of extensions that can be catered to every level, this book provides teachers with clear, step-by-step instructions to teaching dramatic activities with L2 learners of all levels and backgrounds. The games and strategies in this book will enliven classrooms with communication that is creative, memorable, inspiring, and fun. Grounded in cutting-edge research, this book explains why teaching language through drama is effective and inspiring for teachers and students alike, directing readers to a wide array of resources and approaches to teaching language through theatre. You’ll also find guidance on leading drama games with language learners in a variety of online platforms, lesson planning models, and an example lesson plan for easy implementation in physical or virtual classroom spaces.