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Drama in Primary ESL - Coggle Diagram
Drama in Primary ESL
Benefits of Drama for Primary ESL Learners
Literacy Skills
Strengthens reading fluency, comprehension, and writing through drama-based literacy tasks (Almén & Langebro, 2024).
Affective Development
Increases confidence, reduces speaking anxiety, and motivates learners to participate (Rojabi & Mustofa, 2021; Angelianawati, 2019).
Provides safe spaces for self-expression and emotional release (Boudreault, 2010).
Cognitive Development
Encourages creativity, imagination, problem-solving, and critical thinking (Angelianawati, 2019; Rojabi & Mustofa, 2021).
Social Development
Fosters teamwork, cooperation, empathy, and social awareness through group performance (Angelianawati, 2019; Boudreault, 2010).
Language Development
Enhances vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and prosody (Angelianawati, 2019; Boudreault, 2010).
Builds discourse competence and communicative fluency (Boudreault, 2010).
Improves listening, speaking, reading, and writing in authentic contexts (Angelianawati, 2019; Boudreault, 2010).
Cultural Awareness
Provides exposure to cultural contexts, perspectives, and authentic social interactions (Angelianawati, 2019; Boudreault, 2010).
Elements of Children’s Drama in ESL
Core components
action, dialogue, non-verbal language such as gestures and facial expressions (Angelianawati, 2019)
Drama techniques
role-play, improvisation, mime, scripted play, Reader’s Theater (Angelianawati, 2019; Boudreault, 2010)
Literacy-related activities
adapting scripts, writing in role, and reading drama texts aloud (Almén & Langebro, 2024)
Drama strategies
hot-seating, teacher-in-role, writing-in-role, drama games, puppetry, freeze-frame (Boudreault, 2010; Rojabi & Mustofa, 2021)