From the curtain to the façade: Enhancing ESL/EFL learners’ communicative competence through an interactive digital drama

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2012
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Lombardi, Ivan
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Department of German, University College Cork
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Façade is a one-act interactive digital drama about a marital crisis. The player is asked to play the role of a friend of the couple, and to try to cope with the situation by using his or her interaction skills. In this paper, I argue that Façade may be a valuable tool for teaching English as a second/foreign language, especially for the development of communicative competence. In order show how Façade may be used effectively, I (i) highlight the features of the tool that can play a meaningful role in language teaching; (ii) give examples of drama techniques that best exploit Façade; (iii) trace the techniques back to a methodology of reference; (iv) stress the primary importance of the human factor, the learners and teacher, over the technological tool. I then linger on the role of the teacher in activities that involve Façade, as well as other digital media. My proposal is presented under the metaphor of the edurector.
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Lombardi, I. (2012) 'From the curtain to the façade: Enhancing ESL/EFL learners’ communicative competence through an interactive digital drama', Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, VI(2), pp. 61-75. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.6.2.7