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Peer reviewedDickson, Patricia S. – French Review, 1989
Classroom activities used in acting courses that can be useful in developing French second language skills are described. Appropriate adaptations for variety, different purposes, and different skill levels are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Acting, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Difficulty Level
Peer reviewedPelletier, Raymond J. – Foreign Language Annals, 1990
Describes four techniques for using a video camera to generate higher levels of student interest, involvement, and productivity in beginning foreign language courses. The techniques include spontaneous discussion of video images, enhancement of students' use of interrogative pronouns and phrases, grammar instruction, and student-produced skits.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Grammar, Introductory Courses, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewedWhitman, Cynthia – Social Science Record, 1990
Discusses an elementary teacher's use of educational skits in history instruction. Describes the preparation of skit scripts. Observes that children who grow up passively watching television need encouragement to become actively involved in learning. Suggests that rehearsing the past may be the best way to prepare for the future. (SG)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Drama, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum
Lederer, Herbert – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
Play-acting is a natural human instinct; role-playing, disguising, game-playing are all favorite activities for people of all ages. In a foreign language course, dramatization is especially appropriate and can be used in many ways both in class and as an extra-curricular or supplementary activity. Much language learning occurs during the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Dramatics, Drama, Enrichment Activities
Peer reviewedMakita-Discekici, Yasuko – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1999
Describes one teacher's use of creative skits in a college-level beginning Japanese language course. Each student must participate in two skits. Preparatory activities, required linguistic elements, use of props, teacher input into scripts, and methods and criteria for evaluation of performance are outlined. Possible difficulties and solutions and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedChilcoat, George – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1996
Presents a lesson plan explaining and providing procedures for a flippy theater project. Flippy theater is a series of drawings that illustrate a one-act play, presented on large individual sheets or canvas suspended from a pole hung between two uprights or held by two people. Includes an example. (MJP)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Creative Activities, Creative Expression, Dramatic Play
Download full textRichardson, Maurine V.; And Others – 1994
At the University of South Dakota, as part of a campus-wide celebration of diversity focused on northeastern Asia (China, Japan, Korea), undergraduate and graduate Children's Literature classes participated by locating relevant literature and presenting them dramatically. Students were divided into six small cooperative groups. Each group chose a…
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Class Activities, Cultural Pluralism
