Describes a play-writing experiment at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado. (RS)

Describes project at Ohio State University in which graduate students wrote an original documentary play to help them understand process by which documents assume a literary nature and as opportunity to link literary studies and current events. (Author/BK)

A college faculty member points out that allowing students to write and perform their own foreign language plays improves listening, speaking, and writing skills and exposes the students to new idiomatic expressions and conversational patterns used in contextually relevant and culturally specific situations. (Author/CB)