Partnership for Learning Conference

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Partnership for Learning Conference

• Rabat, 28 February- 2 March 2005
• USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE
• Animated by
• Nezha BELKACHLA
• CPR-Marrakech

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• Purposes 
• Share ideas on the importance of using drama in
  EFL classes
• Encourage the use of drama in teaching tales and
  short stories.
• Enable the participants to experience some drama
  techniques
• Allow the participants to reflect on their
  practice and give feedback

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• Agenda 
• Introduction and Expectations
• Experiencing some drama techniques
• Reflecting on practice
• PowerPoint presentation of the content  
• Wrap up and evaluation

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• .... Everything that actors do, we do throughout
  our lives, always and everywhere... The only
  difference is that actors are conscious that they
  are using the language of theatre, and are thus
  better able to turn it to their advantage,
  whereas the woman and man in the street do not
  know that they are speaking theatre.
  Augusto Boal (1992)

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• For directors and actors in theater real life
  provides material for the stage. For teachers and
  students of EFL, the stage provides material for
  language in real life.
• Thomas Kral, ed (1998V)

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• Through drama, English becomes a living
  experience of communication.
• Richard A. Via (1998 161)

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• It can make use of a range of language skills in
  realistic situations A whole-task practice, as
  Littlewood (198117) labels it.

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• The reasons for the success of drama techniques
  can perhaps best be explained in psycholinguistic
  terms Motivation, Self Esteem, Creativity,
  Cultural Proximity
  
• Scott G. Stevens

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• At the MEXTESOL National Conference in
  Guadalajara in October 1991 it was pointed out by
  Professor Dinorah de Pous that a student learns
  10 of what he reads, 20 of what he hears, 30
  of what he sees, 60 of what he sees and hears,
  70 of what he reads, sees, and says, and a
  whopping 90 of what he says when he is doing an
  action.
• Forum (31/2 38)

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• Charles Currans CLL and James Ashers TPR
  recommend teachers should try to reach the
  whole person mind, body and psyche, so drama
  might help achieve that purpose.

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USING DRAMA TO TEACH TALES HODJA AS AN EXAMPLE

• It can trigger creativity and engender fun and
  entertainment in the English class.

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