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Book The Theater Arts and the Teaching of Second Languages

Download or read book The Theater Arts and the Teaching of Second Languages written by Stephen M. Smith and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theater Arts and the Teaching of Second Languages

Download or read book The Theater Arts and the Teaching of Second Languages written by Stephen M. Smith and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sociocultural Theory and Language Learning as Performance

Download or read book Sociocultural Theory and Language Learning as Performance written by John R. Haught and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author leads us on a journey of his years teaching additional languages through the use of performing arts. Drama, theater games, music, and other performance activities promote language use in authentic and engaging ways that differ from typical classroom activities and allow the language learners to have fun as they solve challenges in the target language. Drawing on the work of Lev Vygotsky and Sociocultural Theory, he demonstrates how learning is social and how learners create their knowledge by working with each other. Drama and creative arts are a powerful means for teaching and learning language because of the emotional support and encouragement it entails. He shows how performing arts engage learners intellectually, physically, and emotionally while offering supports and scaffolds that lead to powerful learning outcomes. He has effectively used these techniques with children and adults both at home and abroad in many different cultures and settings and argues that anyone can use these learning strategies to augment their teaching.

Book The Art of Foreign Language Teaching

Download or read book The Art of Foreign Language Teaching written by Peter Lutzker and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this work became a standard reference work in the general context of humanistic approaches to foreign language teaching and learning. This new edition gives a brief overview of further developments in relevant fields and discusses the importance of the concept of teaching as an art in light of the increasing standardization and digitalization of education. Reviews of the 1st edition I believe that the book will become a standard reference point for all those who, against the current tide of 'scientific', objectives-based, test-oriented, control-obsessed, sterile approaches to language teaching, continue to believe that language teaching is indeed an art, and a joyful art at that. Prof. Dr. Alan Maley in English Language Teaching Journal Peter Lutzker is a major educational thinker and has spent half an earthly span living towards this major book. (...) I have placed Peter's book on my shelves next to those of Rogers, Curran, Dufeu and Stevick. Mario Rinvolucri in Humanising Language Teaching

Book The Arts in Language Teaching

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivier Mentz
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release : 2019-04-30
  • ISBN : 3643802854
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Arts in Language Teaching written by Olivier Mentz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?" (Keith Jarrett) Taking Jarrett's thought one step further, one could ask: If you already have a sense of play, rhythm, or movement ingrained in your body, why would you not perform it? Drawing on the transdisciplinary and hybrid nature of human communication, this volume is based on the idea of a fruitful dialogue between languages, aesthetic education, and performing arts. Scholars from all continents have contributed to this anthology - a sign of the growing interest worldwide in promoting the vision of teaching and learning foreign languages with head, heart, hands and feet.

Book Dramatic Interactions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicoletta Marini-Maio
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2011-01-18
  • ISBN : 1443827487
  • Pages : 415 pages

Download or read book Dramatic Interactions written by Nicoletta Marini-Maio and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatic Interactions is a collection of essays on the flourishing and interdisciplinary subject of teaching foreign languages, literatures, and cultures through theater. With rich examples from a variety of commonly and less commonly taught languages, this book affirms both the relevance and effectiveness of using theater for foreign language learning in the most comprehensive sense of the term. It includes innovative approaches to specific theatrical texts and addresses numerous aspects of foreign language learning such as oral proficiency and communication, intercultural competence, the role of affect and motivation in foreign language study, multiple literacies, regional variations and dialect, literary analysis and adaptation, and the overall liberating effects of verbal and non-verbal self-expression in the foreign language. Dramatic Interactions renders accessible, efficacious, and enjoyable the study of languages, literatures, and cultures through theater with the hope of inspiring and facilitating the greater incorporation of theatrical texts and techniques in foreign language courses at every level.

Book Drama Education and Second Language Learning

Download or read book Drama Education and Second Language Learning written by Joe Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the contribution of drama to second language learning has grown internationally as a field of interest to both teachers and researchers. The potential for drama to provide strong social contexts for learning, to provide opportunities for the learner to embody the target language and to motivate students’ desire to communicate have been increasingly recognized as fruitful areas of inquiry. This book provides a brief historical perspective on the development of this interest before presenting a range of examples drawn from recent research projects led by those who are themselves experienced as drama and second language teachers. Drawing on a variety of theoretical perspectives and deploying a range of methodological processes, the chapters present evidence as to how and why drama can impact on student learning in a range of classrooms, from the primary school through to undergraduate level. Focusing on issues such as questioning in role, the professional development of second language teachers interested in using drama, and the role of artistry when applying drama as pedagogy for second language learning, they provide an up to date picture of contemporary practices and an acute analysis of both the possibilities and the challenges facing researchers in the field. This book was originally published as a special issue of Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance.

Book Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv

Download or read book Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv written by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning

Download or read book Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning written by Patrice Baldwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Theatre in the Secondary School Classroom

Download or read book Theatre in the Secondary School Classroom written by Jim Patterson and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re a preservice teacher planning to teach the theatre arts, an in-service secondary teacher considering a foray into teaching theatre, or a theatre professional considering the classroom, there’s a lot to learn. But you don’t have to know everything to teach well from the start, you just need Theatre in the Secondary School Classroom. Theatre in the Secondary School Classroom is the trusty guide that every new theatre teacher will be grateful to have as a ready reference. It’s not an encyclopedia on secondary theatre, but a collection of musts that every beginning instructor needs to know. Theoretical, practical, and friendly, Theatre in the Secondary School Classroom introduces key instructional methods and successful strategies, and works through the problems of practice that face all instructors, regardless of their experience. With discussions of finding appropriate spaces (both personal and physical), assessing students’ learning, encouraging involvement, and more, you’ll find the crucial information you need to hit the ground running. Patterson, McKenna-Crook, and Ellington provide numerous illustrations, model letters to parents, work samples, rubrics, checklists, and example test questions to show you precisely how the nitty-gritty of theatre education plays out. In addition each chapter contains suggested extension activities for students, Internet links to valuable resources and research materials, and experience-won hints on topics of specific interest to the new theatre teacher.

Book Drama in Foreign Language Education

Download or read book Drama in Foreign Language Education written by Max von Blanckenburg and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama pedagogy has been undergoing considerable changes over the last few years. The diversification of dramatic texts and performative practices – both analogue and digital – impacts on foreign language education and requires new forms of literacies for teachers and learners. This volume brings together papers that theorize and investigate current teaching perspectives at the nexus of drama-oriented and performative teaching and foreign language education.

Book Body and Language

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerd Bräuer
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2002-07-30
  • ISBN : 0313011907
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book Body and Language written by Gerd Bräuer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-07-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the bridging character of drama-based foreign and second language teaching for intercultural learning. Drama here is not limited to theater-related work, but means the interplay between body and language in general, to include, for example, sports, dancing, singing, and storytelling. The major techniques and curricular structures of educational drama and its application in the foreign and second language classroom are introduced. What are the techniques, methods, strategies, and curricular structures that engage language learners in continuing dialogue between one's own culture and the one yet to be discovered? What comprises the language we speak in order to understand and be understood? Which body is it we communicate through and to? This volume answers these and other questions of the pedagogy of drama-based teaching across the foreign/second language curriculum and on all levels of the educational pyramid. There are two major issues currently discussed in drama-based foreign and second language methodology. The first is goal-oriented, asking whether the acquisition of accuracy or fluency is more important, and whether a controlled (learning through imitation) or an open (through improvisation) learning environment is more efficient. The second issue concerns using drama in language teaching: either its use is process-oriented, where drama becomes an immediate medium for language learning, or product-oriented, where it becomes primarily the reason for language learning. The book outlines the theoretical frameworks of both issues and introduces personal narrative, comparative observation, and analytical reflection, illuminating opportunities for learning at both ends of the seemingly contradictory poles of both issues.

Book Introduction to Theatre Arts 2  Volume Two  Second Edition

Download or read book Introduction to Theatre Arts 2 Volume Two Second Edition written by Suzi Zimmerman and published by Meriwether. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like with the first volume, teachers will love having the entire student handbook in this teacher's guide, along with 100 additional pages of helpful information and tips, grading forms and scoring rubrics, student activities, and more. The second edition of the Teacher's Guide is also better laid out with the notes to the teacher now appearing alongside the corresponding student page. No more flipping back and forth between pages! Finally, this guide, which makes teaching theatre arts easy and fun for everyone, contains four special chapters: The Valuable Theatre Program, Theatre for Unique Learners, Theatre for Students Who Are Learning a New Language, and Guides and Helpers for Everything. Whether you use this text as a full-year curriculum, pick and choose activities for a semester-long class, or simply supplement other teaching materials with these materials, this best-selling textbook is a must-have resource!

Book Embodying Language in Action

Download or read book Embodying Language in Action written by Erika Piazzoli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores embodiment in second language education, sociocultural theory and research. It focuses on process drama, an embodied approach that engages learners’ imagination, body and voice to create a felt-experience of the second language and culture. Divided into three parts, it begins by examining the aesthetic and intercultural dimension of performative language teaching, the elements of drama and knowing-in-action. The central part of the book examines issues related to play, emotions, classroom discourse and assessment when learning a language through process drama, in a sociocultural perspective. The third part is an analysis of the author’s qualitative research, which informs a subtle discussion on reflective practitioner methodology, learner engagement and teacher artistry. Each chapter includes a drama workshop, illustrating in practice what embodying language in action can look like when working with asylum seekers, adult learners with intellectual disabilities, pre-service teachers, international students and children involved in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programme. A unique combination of theory, research and reflective practice, this book provides valuable insights for teacher/artists, teacher educators and researchers in the fields of performative and sociocultural language learning.

Book The Art of Foreign Language Teaching

Download or read book The Art of Foreign Language Teaching written by Peter Lutzker and published by Narr Francke Attempto Verlag. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this work became a standard reference work in the general context of humanistic approaches to foreign language teaching and learning. This new edition gives a brief overview of further developments in relevant fields and discusses the importance of the concept of teaching as an art in light of the increasing standardization and digitalization of education. Reviews of the 1st edition I believe that the book will become a standard reference point for all those who, against the current tide of 'scientific', objectives-based, test-oriented, control-obsessed, sterile approaches to language teaching, continue to believe that language teaching is indeed an art, and a joyful art at that. Prof. Dr. Alan Maley in English Language Teaching Journal Peter Lutzker is a major educational thinker and has spent half an earthly span living towards this major book. (...) I have placed Peter's book on my shelves next to those of Rogers, Curran, Dufeu and Stevick. Mario Rinvolucri in Humanising Language Teaching

Book How the Arts Can Save Education

Download or read book How the Arts Can Save Education written by Erica Rosenfeld Halverson and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive look at how the arts (broadly conceived) can improve teaching, learning, and curriculum for all students, written in accessible language for non-academics and non-experts. It contains many evocative examples to illustrate the power of the arts to change education"--

Book Set the Stage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicoletta Marini-Maio
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-12-16
  • ISBN : 0300152752
  • Pages : 424 pages

Download or read book Set the Stage written by Nicoletta Marini-Maio and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set the Stage! is a collection of essays on teaching Italian language, literature, and culture through theater. From theoretical background to course models, this book provides all the resources that teachers and students need to incorporate the rich and abundant Italian theater tradition into the curriculum. Features of the book includethe “Director's Handbook,” a comprehensive guide with detailed instructions for every step of the process, from choosing a text to the final performance,an exclusive interview with Nobel laureate Dario Fo,a foreword by prize-winning author Dacia Maraini.