Process Drama in Second- and Foreign-Language Classrooms.

Author: Liu, Jun
Published: Westport, Connecticut & London, 2002
Source: Gerd Bräuer (Ed.): Body and Language. Intercultural Learning Through Drama.
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
ISB-Number: 1-56750-671-2

Abstract

"Process Drama" (synonymous to "drama in education" in Britain) is an effective foreign-language-teaching method that develops a dramatic world created by both the teacher and the students working together. Students actively explore fictional roles and situations, thus, they learn to use the target language in meaningful, authentic situations. Jun Lui introduces the technique of "Process Drama" and explains its three functions in a language classroom - the cognitive, the social and the affective. Additionally, he introduces different strategies to implement "Process Drama" in the language classroom.

Liu, Jun

Jun Liu is assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Arizona. Growing up during the Great Cultural Revolution in China, Jun was trained in Beijing Opera and local drama. He studied under one of the foremost authorities in the field of drama in education, Cecily O'Neill, at the Ohio State University. Jun taught English for more than fifteen years by using dramatic activities including process Drama, Readers' Theater, story-telling, and improvisation. He serves at the TESOL Board of Directors as Director at Large.

Publications: "Peer Response in Second Language Writing Classrooms" (2002), "Asian Students’ Classroom Communication Patterns in U.S. Universities" (2001)