Dramatisation and retelling of our #alqareading book clubs: The use of language as a performative art #BOOKCLUBBING

Drama can add up plenty of soft and hard skills to us, as ESL teachers, and to our students' Education. Typically, language teaching is perceived as a scientific discipline prioritising subject knowledge and procedural techniques, however, teaching needs a re-thinking and as we follow new trends and innovative methodologies, we truly believe it should also be conceived more as a performative art in its vehicular conception (that is to say, language is a means to work on every other field), requiring students to develop a variety of skills, among which, that of a performer should be highlighted. Think of all the role-plays we use in class to enact learning situations in which the student gets a "real" context. Undoubtedly there are similarities between teaching and performance, not least the fact that teaching involves dealing with human beings and therefore it requires a physical, mental and emotional engagement and bond between them. This co-teaching activity introduces again, as, it was previously introduced in all the #storytellers series of activities carried out in the past, drama techniques in the classroom effectively

#ALQAREADING BOOK CLUB: RETELLING AND DRAMATISATION

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Preparatory Activities