드라마를 활용한 효과적인 영어교육

Abstract

English Through Drama (ETD) combines the elements of dramatic improvisation, theater games, and simple body awareness, and sets in motion an educational process aimed at increasing the student's conversational abilities in English, as well as improving the student's attitude toward language learning. To improve students' self-confidence in speaking a foreign language by training them to coordinate physical movement with verbal messages. ETD came to the English language classroom through direct, practical application of theatrical techniques to the problems of language learning. Speaking and listening, reading and writing are interrelated and integral to the exploration of written and read text. Drama not only integrate the different strands of speaking and listening, but can also contextualize the teaching of reading and writing. Drama, rooted within speaking and listening, can provide, through imagined experience, an endless range of opportunities for integrating all aspects of English. Drama is where language is applied and practised. But many ideas of ETD are aimed at young students. In Korea, many university students and adults are learning English. Therefore, we must develop practical theory corresponding to Korean circumstances. We can develop their listening ability by making them watch video tape repeatedly. We can also improve their speaking ability by role-play or improvisation. More practical ideas of ETD must be created for many Korean students. Of course, there are many problems like the entrance examination in Korea. To find the teacher who has personal communicative ability and creative potential as well as fluency in English is very difficult. But we can practice this ETD in kindergarten or in university for a start. In middle or high school, ETD can be practiced as extracurriculum class. Especially in English Education Department of university, we can select several famous plays for text in English Drama class and use it for ETD.