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Enhancing The English-Language Oral Skills Of International Students Through Drama, Chamkaur Gill
Enhancing The English-Language Oral Skills Of International Students Through Drama, Chamkaur Gill
Chamkaur Gill
Ten non-English-speaking-background students of Bond University were observed to identify the effects of drama on oral English. Over a period of twelve weeks (two hours per week), elements of their oral English communication were measured. The weeks were divided into four lots of three weeks each, with the first three weeks made up entirely of communicative non-drama-based (CNDB) lessons, weeks four to six comprising only communicative drama-based (CDB) methodology, weeks seven to nine reverting to CNDB methodology, and the final three weeks being made up of CDB strategies again. The hypothesis of this study was that all the participants would …
Using Drama Techniques To Encourage Oral Interaction, Chamkaur Gill
Using Drama Techniques To Encourage Oral Interaction, Chamkaur Gill
Chamkaur Gill
The writer argues drama is certainly not a panacea for all the ills existing in the language teaching world, but it would seem to have strengths in the oral skills area that conservative teaching methods do not.