Improving communicative competence through mime: Bringing students’ ‘out-of-school’ literacy practices into Japanese university EFL oral communication classes

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dc.contributor.authorNfor, Samuel
dc.contributor.editorSchewe, Manfreden
dc.contributor.editorEven, Susanneen
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-28T14:21:06Z
dc.date.available2022-02-28T14:21:06Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis study uses the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach to emphasize interaction in EFL study to prepare students for real life communication outside of formal language teaching contexts. Using mime drama techniques to show a range of literacy practices, the study seeks to show that establishing creative links between students’ language use and learning inside and outside of the classroom is essential for making formal education more relevant to students’ life experiences and identities. The study examines the benefits and challenges of experimental CLT in a Japanese university EFL oral communication class and concludes that bringing students’ ‘out-of-school’ literacy practices from outside the context of formal education into the EFL classroom acknowledges their investment in classroom language practices, secures student engagement, and yields perceived improvement.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationNfor, S. (2018) 'Improving communicative competence through mime: Bringing students’ ‘out-of-school’ literacy practices into Japanese university EFL oral communication classes', Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, XII(2), pp. 13-30. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.12.2.2en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.12.2.2
dc.identifier.endpage30
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued2
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenarioen
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage13
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12626
dc.identifier.volumeXII
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-12-2-2
dc.rights© 2018, 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.titleImproving communicative competence through mime: Bringing students’ ‘out-of-school’ literacy practices into Japanese university EFL oral communication classesen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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