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Gary AndersonCambridge ELT
‘A roomful of human beings’
Drama techniques as communication
activities in language learning
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Drama TechniquesA resource book of
communication activites for language
teachersThird Edition
byAlan Maley & Alan Duff
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Third edition
• Added new/cut old activites
• Activites completely rewritten in new
series format
Aim Focus Level Time
Preparation Procedure Follow-on
Variation(s) Note(s)
Follow-on
+150 (ideas for) activities
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Third edition
• Activites rewritten• Added new activites
• Reorganised structure: reordering activites
and adding chapters on Voice and Performance
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
• Getting ready
• Working with … x 8
• Into Performance
Integrates language skills in a natural wayIntegrates verbal & non-verbal aspects of
communicationDraws upon both cognitive and affective domainsContextualizes the language and brings the
classroom to lifeOffers opportunities for catering to learner
differencesTransfers responsibility for learning from teacher
to learners
Why use drama?
Fosters self-awareness, self-esteem, confidence and motivation
Sustains motivation through variety and expectancy generated by activities
Encourages open, exploratory style of learningPositively effects classroom dynamics and atmosphereOffers an enjoyable experienceLow-resource: ‘All you need is a roomful of human
beings.’
Why use drama?
Know thy…SchoolClass
Student…sSelf
Why not use drama?
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
• Words
• Sentences
• Scenes
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Working with/from words• Back-writing (Actv 1.22)
• Favourite word (Actv 8.1)+
Breathing (Actv 4.3)The Great Conductor
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Working with/from sentences• Elastic sentences (Actv 4.14)
• ‘Say Cheese!’ (Actv 2.3)+
Warming up the voice (Actv 4.4)The Mouth, Nose & Throat Doctor
andThinking about my voice (Actv 4.7)
Me and my voice
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Working with/from scenes• Group orchestration of
texts (Actvs 4.17 & 4.11)• ‘Where did you get that
hat!?’ (Actv 5.9)• Mix & mingle (Actv
1.32)
A word is deadWhen it is said,
Some say.I say it just
Begins to liveThat day.
Emily Dickinson Complete Poems: Random House, 1924.
Drama techniques as communication
activities in language learning
Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers
Drama TechniquesA resource book of
communication activites for language
teachersThird Edition
byAlan Maley & Alan Duff
