Process Drama for Second Language Teaching and Learning: A Toolkit for Developing Language and Life Skills (Bloomsbury Guidebooks for Language Teachers) - Hardcover

Patrice Baldwin; Alicja Galazka

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350164755 ISBN 13: 9781350164758

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Synopsis

This book explains why drama works as an enjoyable, social, and emotionally engaged way for children, young people and adults to learn languages, as well as showing how it provides motivating contexts and structures for acquiring and using real language in imagined worlds. The authors present 20 practical, adaptable strategies, based on research and accompanied by exemplar lessons, each designed to engage learners and stimulate purposeful talk within meaningful contexts. Process Drama emotionally engages learners and stimulates purposeful talk, within meaningful contexts. The authors refer to relevant educational, psychological and neurological theories and cite research that helps account for dramas efficacy in motivating talk and supporting first and second language acquisition and the development of important life skills such as communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity and resilience. They provide a flexible teachers toolbox of pedagogical drama strategies. Each strategy is explained in detail and linked to a series of step-by-step, detailed, high quality, exemplar lessons, which may be adapted and used flexibly for different purposes and contexts.

About this title

About the Authors

Patrice Baldwin is an internationally acclaimed ‘Drama for Learning’ Specialist. She has been a Headteacher, school inspector, government curriculum adviser, Chair of National Drama (UK) and President of the International Drama Theatre and Education Association (2010-13). She has also been a BBC Education consultant and scriptwriter.

Alicja Galazka is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia, Poland, and director of the Educational Centre. She is a pioneer of the use of drama in ELT in Poland, Head of Drama in ELT Special Interest at International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language in Poland, Poland. She is also a psychotherapist and international coach.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350164755
• ISBN 13: 9781350164758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208