Web-based Resources for English Language Teaching & Learning
DRAMA

Leslie Opp-Beckman, University of Oregon
Email: leslieob@uoregon.edu

 

Articles

Creating Drama with Poetry: Teaching English as a Second Language Through Dramatization and Improvisation
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/digest/gaspar01.html
"Creating drama with poetry is an exciting language learning experience. The technique employs a multi-sensory approach to language acquisition by involving second language learners physically, emotionally, and cognitively in the language learning process."

Encouraging English Expression through Script-based Improvisations
http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Berlinger-ScriptImprov.html
"Dialogues, scenes and plays that approximate real communication provide a dynamic format in which language skills can be introduced and reinforced. Improvisation greatly enhances this approach."

 

Lesson Plans, Teaching Tips and Interactive Web Sites

Creative Drama Lesson Plans
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/3765/lessons.html
Lesson plans developed for use in a Creative Drama Classroom (and a few games and lessons from others as well).

Creative Drama and Theatre Lesson Plans
http://www.creativedrama.com/
Classroom ideas, theatre games, plays for performance, and book list.

The Drama Teacher's Class Room
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/erachi/
At the Drama Teacher's Resource Room we are striving to make it easier for you to encourage creative and challenging experiences for students in your drama classroom.

Exploring Prejudice in Young Adult Literature through Drama and Role Play
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring95/Bontempo.html
Young adult literature provides rich literary material for exploring issues and dilemmas of the human experience as perceived by the young.

National Standards for Theater Education
http://www.byu.edu/tma/arts-ed/
Information on Improvisation Situations, Theatre Games and Drama and Theatre Books.

Storytelling, Drama, Creative Dramatics, Puppetry & Readers Theater for Children & Young Adults
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/drama.htm
"Oral interpretation of literature through dramatic activity, storytelling or Reader's Theater is an effective method of promoting enjoyment of literature, developing oral expression and increasing reading comprehension. The following Internet sites offer resources for such activities."


TEFL.NET ESL Lesson Plans, Improvisations
http://www.tefl.net/lessonplans/improvisations.htm
"Improvisations are not role-plays or simulations (although many of them can be adapted as such). The objective here is total spontaneity and improvisation."

 

Directories

EdHelper, Drama Lessons
http://www.edhelper.com/cat35.htm

LessonPlansPage.com
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAK1.htm

ProTeacher
http://www.proteacher.com/080010.shtml