Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning: A Toolkit for Developing Language and Life Skills

Description

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. Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Introducing Process Drama 1 What is Process Drama and How Can it Help Language Learners and Learning? 2 Using Process Drama to Develop Twenty-First-Century Skills 3 How to Introduce Process Drama to a Class and What is Expected of the Teacher? Part II Process Drama Strategies and Conventions for Use in the Second Language Classroom Part III The Drama Units Unit 1: Bullying Unit 2: The Great Fire of London Unit 3: Refugees Unit 4: Conservation or Change? Unit 5: Beowulf Unit 6: Over the Top—The True Story of Annie Edson Taylor, the “Queen of the Mist” Appendix: Resource Sheets References Index