DRAMA AS A TEACHING TOOL FOR THE INTEGRATION OF LANGUAGE SKILLS
ABSTRACT
Language classroom instruction is mostly focussed on writing and
reading skills overlooking the other skills such as speaking and listening. The
teachers of English perhaps do not integrate language skills in the classroom
due to large class size, heterogeneous students and the duration of the period.
Hence, the language instruction demands various techniques for integration of
language teaching that makes learning more interesting. This paper attempts to
offer the techniques of drama in the teaching of language skills at
undergraduate level. In general, it exhibits that how dramatic techniques can be
integrated in teaching of language skills. In teaching context, the drama involves
and stimulates the feelings and visualisation of the learners, providing them
various stimuli and elevating their learning knowledge on the subterranean
level. Scrivener’s (1994) techniques of drama are adopted in language
instruction to examine the effectiveness of the learners’ language
development. The paper is categorised into two parts – theoretical features of
drama and practical methods used in the context of ESL teaching. Furthermore,
it also presents a general picture of language teaching and learning procedure
to integrate language teaching and learning by using the techniques of drama.
Finally, it is recommended that all the language teachers should explore the
variety of teaching techniques in the classroom in order to integrate language
teaching and to enhance all the language skills among learners.
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Keywords: Drama, Teaching through drama, Integrated language teaching,
Techniques of drama play.
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