English through drama for oral skills development

1.What is the aim of the study ?

-using language fluently in terms of orally

-providing self-confidence

-delevoping Accent

-learning how to control one’s feelings in front of the audience

-motivating students

2.How would reflection help learning?

Reflective learning encourages critical reflection in order to precipitate or facilitate transformative learning in adults.

3.What are the advantages of using drama in a language class to promote learning?

To be engaged  in a process that includes the establishment of character’s personalities, motives, and persona, creating a geniue purpose for communication.

4.What is the best way to promote reflection?

Describing student’s experiences is the best way to promote student’s reflection.

5.What is porfolio? What is its role in reflection?

Porfolio is record of best performances or productions.

They are used to record learners’ experiences, promoting reflection and change.

6.What are the stages in the study? What is the aim of each stage and how are they organized?

Preliminary Stage

-getting to know each other

-relaxing and laughing while doing voice, breathing, and body-language exercises

-talk and listen cards, role plays, and scenarios

-creating an ensemble

Intermediate Stage

-emotion, action, personalization, and physicalization

-sense memory, gesture, characters’ history

-stage embrace, fights, and drunkenness

-crying, laughing, and facial expressions

Production Stage

7.What are the outcomes  of the study in terms of the benefits it provides to students?

In selecting the excerpts below, I chose those content served as evidence of the claims in the literature fort he benefits of using drama and reflection.

8. Having read this article, what can you say about transformative learning?

Transformative Learning Theory is an adult education based theory that suggests ways in which adults make meaning of their lives.