Body and language : intercultural learning through drama / edited by Gerd Bräuer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bräuer, Gerd.

Series:

Advances in foreign and second language pedagogy ; v. 3.

Advances in foreign and second language pedagogy ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Understanding drama-based education / Betty Jane Wagner

Intercultural recognitions through performative inquiry / Lynn Fels and Lynne McGivern

Transcultural performance in classroom learning / Ann Axtmann

Process drama in second- and foreign language classrooms / Jun Liu

Teaching foreign language literature / Manfred Lukas Schewe

Coping with obstacles in drama-based ESL teaching / Cameron R. Culham

Video recording and playback equipment / Timothy Collins

Designing artful reflective strategies / Philip Taylor

Undergoing a process and achieving a product: a contradiction in educational drama? / Douglas J. Moody

The educational potential of drama for ESL / Sarah L. Dodson

The arts and the foreign-/second-language curriculum: an interdisciplinary approach to actively engage students in their own learning / Janet Hegman Shier

Performing Brecht: from theory to practice / Franziska B. Lys ... [et al.]

Magic on stage / Karla Schultz and Penelope Heinigk.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400620294

9786610315178

9781280315176

1280315172

9780313011900

0313011907

OCLC:

929145161