The document discusses using drama in the classroom as a powerful teaching tool. It captures students' attention and can transform the classroom into a quasi-real language situation. Drama provides opportunities for personal growth, exploring language aspects practically, and developing communicative skills. The language comes alive in context through improvisation, making learning fun and memorable. Benefits include meaningful interaction, assimilation of pronunciation/prosody, vocabulary/structure acquisition, and confidence in the target language. Drama also improves cooperation, critical thinking, social awareness, and a healthy release of emotion.

1. Using Drama in the classroom
A powerful teaching tool
(Innovation and research 2012)
Teacher. Inma Garín

2. Introduction
• It captures the attention • The artificial world of the
of the students classroom can be
• Drama activities would transformed into a quasi-
sometimes have real language situation
surprising and and provides an endless
unexpected results. amount of opportunities
• We cannot only teach for student’s personal
grammar and phonetics growth.
with drama but also it has
the power to transform
the actors as well as the
audience.

3. Some thoughts
• Drama provides an excellent platform for
exploring theoretical and practical aspects of
the English language .
• The improvisation aspect of drama gives
students opportunities for developing their
communicative skills in authentic and dynamic
situations.
• We ca use English with our students in
intriguing and useful ways.

4. Advantages in Language Learning
• The language can be used in context and makes it
come to life.
• Drama has the potential of making the learning
experience fun for the students and even
memorable because it is interactive and visual.
• The personal nature of improvisation provides
many outlets for self-expression. We even hear
that children need to play as an important
developmental process.

5. Benefits
• The acquisition of meaningful, fluent interaction
in the target language;
• The assimilation of a whole range of
pronunciation and prosodic features in a fully
contextualized and interactional manner;
• The fully contextualized acquisition of new
vocabulary and structure;
• An improved sense of confidence in the student
in his or her ability to learn the target language.”

6. Added value
• T-ss roles.
• Imagination.
• Critical thinking.
• Cooperation skills: It teaches cooperation, empathy for
others, decision making skills and encourages an exchange
of knowledge between the students.
• Social awareness and understanding .
• Healthy release of emotion in a safe setting which can
relieve the tension of learning in a second language.
• Self-acceptance and acceptance of others can be
encouraged .

7. References
• Chris Boudreault, (Lac La Biche, Canada): The
Benefits of Using Drama in the ESL/EFL
Classroom. Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XVI, No.
1, January 2010 http://iteslj.org/
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Boudreault-Drama.html .
• Maley, Alan and Alan Duff. Drama techniques in
Language Learning. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge. 1982.
• Johnstone, Keith (1999), Impro for Storytellers.
Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, NewYork .

8. Other: Tomás Motos
• http://es-es.facebook.com/pages/Tom%C3%A1s-
Motos-Teruel/189928750690
• http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_Motos
• http://www.slideshare.net/avecteatre/teatro-
secundaria-retos-tomas-motos-presentation
• http://www.neuronilla.com/documentate/articulos/19
-creatividad-educacion-e-infancia/156-desarrollo-de-la-
expresion-para-ser-y-hacer-creativos-i-tomas-motos
• http://www.iacat.com/Cre@fondo/escenariosCurriculo
.htm

9. Summing up
• Drama develops communication skills, encourages
leadership, team work, compromise, authentic
listening skills and practice with real life savoir-faire.
• Drama promotes the exchange of knowledge, builds
confidence and self-esteem, refines presentation
skills, encourages self-acceptance and acceptance of
others, features of empowerment, pride in
work, responsibility, problem solving, management and
organizational skills, begets creativity and imagination.