SPECIFICS OF DRAMATIZATION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

Abstract

Drama is a powerful language teaching tool that involves all of the students interactively all of the class period. Drama can also provide the means for connecting students’ emotions and cognition as it enables students to take risks with language and experience the connection between thought and action. Teaching English as a foreign language inevitably involves a balance between receptive and productive skills; here drama can effectively deal with this requirement. This paper intends to present the results of a small scale study on the implementation of drama workshop among second language learners. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the use of drama and dramatic activities in English language teaching and learning. The paper highlights the benefits that students will derive if they are exposed to the learning of English language through drama and dramatic activities.