Let me hear your body talk: Experiencing the Word for additional language development

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dc.contributor.authorScally, Garrett
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-12T09:21:29Z
dc.date.available2019-12-12T09:21:29Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis article describes a research project created to investigate the application of theatre devising strategies to create a heightened awareness of non-verbal language and embodied experience of words in second language acquisition (SLA) learning and teaching. This is in response to the tendency in SLA teaching to lack an understanding of the importance and the potential of the body’s involvement in the process. Four workshops in Basel, Switzerland were designed and facilitated with adults from distinct cultural and linguistic backgrounds as part of my doctoral research from February-March 2013. I use data generated by an ethnographic approach to fieldwork by analysing interviews, written responses in the project blog (both by the participants and my own), and observations of responses from participants during the workshops. I discuss the theatrical activities used for this purpose reflecting on the possible effects on participants’ linguistic ability and awareness of their physicality as part of an ongoing research process. I draw on Bourdieu’s notion of linguistic habitus and Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the ‘body experiencing the world’ to provide a theoretical framework for analysing the processes of these workshops. These frameworks also support the development of a theatre practice to support SLA that I am tentatively calling “experiencing the word”. I propose that this approach better provides the pragmatic and social conditions, re-created and rehearsed through drama, needed in learning an additional language. This can be done by turning attention to language learning as an embodied experience.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationScally, G. (2019) 'Let me hear your body talk: Experiencing the Word for additional language development', Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, XIII(2), pp. 111-138. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.13.2.8en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.13.2.8
dc.identifier.endpage138
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenario
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage111
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/9424
dc.identifier.volumeXIII
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttp://research.ucc.ie/journals/scenario/2019/02/Scally/08/en
dc.rights© 2019, The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectNon-verbal languageen
dc.subjectEthnographic approachen
dc.subjectLinguistic habitusen
dc.subjectBody experiencingen
dc.titleLet me hear your body talk: Experiencing the Word for additional language developmenten
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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