Teaching Foreign Language Literature: Tapping the Students' Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence.

Author: Schewe, Manfred Lukas
Published: Westport, Connecticut & London, 2002
Source: Gerd Bräuer (Ed.): Body and Language. Intercultural Learning Through Drama.
Publisher: Ablex Publishing

Abstract

"The more intelligences come into play and interconnect when dealing with language, literature, or culture-related issues, the deeper will be the understanding that can be achieved and the more likely it is that foreign language students, as potential mediators between cultures, will be in a position to take a stand, indeed to take action with regard to these issues." The author suggests that using drama in the foreign language classroom helps to trigger not only Linguistic Intelligence but other intelligences as well, especially the Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence. In this text he describes several dramatic activities in detail which can be extremely helpful to create a holistic foreign language learning experience.

Schewe, Manfred Lukas

Manfred Lukas Schewe was a lecturer/teacher trainer at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg in the area of language teaching methodology and is currently lecturer in the German Department, National University of Ireland, University College, Cork.

Publications: "Pädagogische Konzepte für einen ganzheitlichen DaF-Unterricht" (2000), "Fremdsprache inszenieren" (3rd ed. 1993), "Towards Drama as a Method in the Foreign Language Classroom" (1993)