Educational drama and theatre pedagogy: An integral part of training English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers
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2020
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Mages, Wendy K.
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Department of German, University College Cork
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This mixed-methods research documents the integration of educational drama and theatre into a teacher-preparation program for Austrian teachers-in-training who plan to teach English-as-a-foreign-language to Austrian school children. Observations were conducted of the plays developed and performed in English by two cohorts of Austrian teachers-in-training who participated in the teacher-preparation program. Observations were also conducted of the second cohort’s process developing a script based on an English young adult novel, as well as their process of producing and performing the play in English for middle-school and adult audiences. In addition, a survey of participants’ perceptions of the program was conducted. This study investigates how the teachers-in-training responded to the process of creating and performing a play in English, and their perceptions of its benefits and challenges for themselves, as well as for their future students.
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Educational drama and theatre pedagogy , Teacher training , Mixed method , CLIL
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Mages, W. K. (2020) 'Educational drama and theatre pedagogy: An integral part of training English-as-a-Foreign-Language teachers', Scenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, XIV(1), pp. 11-23. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.14.1.2