Halloween Drama Contest: A Didactic Approach to English Language Teaching in a non-Bilingual School

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Sandra Camelo¹  Andrea Sánchez¹  Milena Yanes¹ 

[1] Pontificia Universidad Javeriana;

关键词: Drama;    motivation;    class participation;    English learning;    teenagers;   

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【 摘 要 】

This article presents an action research project developed in Mayor de San Bartolomé School in 2007, when the authors’ teaching practice took place. The observation of 38 eighth graders, between 13 and 14 years old, highlighted their lack of motivation towards the English class. In the coming semester after the observation, the drama activities carried out in the English class made the students more eager to participate in the class activities and to use this language to communicate with their peers. The Halloween Drama Contest consisted of drama activities along with reading comprehension, writing production, vocabulary exercises and phonetics practice. Students were asked to prepare scripts of six horror movies to be performed on Halloween.

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