Sociocultural Theory and Language Learning as Performance (eBook)

Teaching and Learning Additional Languages through Performing Arts

John R. Haught (Autor)

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2018
120 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498566681 (ISBN)

Infos

John R. Haught demonstrates how theater games, music, and other performance activities promote language use in authentic and engaging ways that differ from typical classroom activities. Drawing on Lev Vygotsky and sociocultural theory, Haught demonstrates how learning is social and how learners create their knowledge by working together.

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The author leads us on a journey of his years teaching additional languages through the use of performing arts. Drama, theater games, music, and other performance activities promote language use in authentic and engaging ways that differ from typical classroom activities and allow the language learners to have fun as they solve challenges in the target language. Drawing on the work of Lev Vygotsky and Sociocultural Theory, he demonstrates how learning is social and how learners create their knowledge by working with each other. Drama and creative arts are a powerful means for teaching and learning language because of the emotional support and encouragement it entails. He shows how performing arts engage learners intellectually, physically, and emotionally while offering supports and scaffolds that lead to powerful learning outcomes. He has effectively used these techniques with children and adults both at home and abroad in many different cultures and settings and argues that anyone can use these learning strategies to augment their teaching.

Autor

John R. Haught is associate professor of applied linguistics and TESOL at Wright State University.

Inhalt

Chapter 1Learning Language as PerformanceChapter 2Scripted DramaChapter 3Language and Theatre GamesChapter 4Process DramaChapter 5Strategic InteractionChapter 6Dramatic Task Based Language LearningChapter 7Music & VerseChapter 8Empowerment, Intercultural Communication, and Transcultural FlowsChapter 9Theory & Research into Practice (TRIP)

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Activity Theory • Applied Linguistics • Classroom interaction • Drama • Education • EFL • ELT • ESL • language education • Language Learning • Perezhivanie • Performative Language Teaching • performing arts • process drama • Strategic Interaction • task-based language learning • Teacher Education • TESOL • theater games • Vygotskian theory • Vygotsky • zone of proximal development
• ISBN-13: 9781498566681 / 9781498566681