Role-play in literature lectures: Students' assessment of their learning

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dc.contributor.authorNI Riain, Isobel
dc.contributor.authorDawson, Ciaran
dc.contributor.authorMcCarthy, Marian
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-25T11:50:01Z
dc.date.available2026-02-25T11:50:01Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe following article is based on a piece of qualitative research on the use of role-play in a literature module in the Modern Irish Dept. of University College Cork, Ireland, in 2015. There were 18 students involved in the research. The aim of the research was to investigate if students associate learning with the use of role-play in literature lectures, and the findings indicate that students do indeed associate many different types of learning with role-play. Role-play is used widely in language classes but less widely in literature lectures. Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs); questionnaires; a focus group; and essays were used as a means of gathering data. The research findings indicate that students are nervous when first presented with the prospect of doing role-play in class; however, the findings show that these feelings soon give way to an acceptance of role-play and an appreciation of this teaching methodology as beneficial to both teaching and learning. The students who took part in the study were very enthusiastic about the group work involved in preparing and performing role-play. The lectures and role-play were all carried out through the medium of the Irish language. While the authors recognise that role-play may not lend itself to all teaching contexts, they wish to encourage other literature teachers to experiment with role-play.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidNI Riain, Isobel
dc.identifier.authororcidDawson, Ciaran
dc.identifier.authororcidMcCarthy, Marian
dc.identifier.citationNI Riain, I, Dawson, C & McCarthy, M 2018, 'Role-play in literature lectures: Students' assessment of their learning', The International Journal For The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, vol. 12, no. 1, 8, pp. 1-9. < https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1722&context=ij-sotl >
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dc.identifier.journaltitleThe International Journal For The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18569
dc.identifier.volume12
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.urihttps://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1722&context=ij-sotl
dc.relation.urihttps://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1172237
dc.rights© 2018, the Authors. This work is made available under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
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dc.rights.licensenameAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectLiterature lectures
dc.subjectAction research
dc.subjectTeaching and learning
dc.subjectRole-play
dc.subject[DPR]
dc.titleRole-play in literature lectures: Students' assessment of their learningen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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