Full Description
This unique collection promotes and develops 'drama-in-English', a hybrid pedagogy combining reader response theory with literacy research and educational drama. Drawing on experienced practitioners' classroom insights, the authors show how embedded drama approaches can be used to revitalise the English/Language Arts curriculum and motivate young people to make personal and critical connections with their learning.
Readers will find eight reader-friendly accounts exploring how drama-inflected approaches support diverse learners across all aspects of English teaching. Contributors discuss engaging with literary texts through spoken, written and multimodal responses; digital storytelling; embodied approaches to creative and informative writing; developing language competency; and preparation for formal examinations. The research-informed content, rooted in real classroom practice, demonstrates sustainable and fully integrated creative approaches applicable to UK and international contexts.
This essential resource benefits all those working in English/Language Arts education: secondary teachers, teacher educators, trainee teachers, and teachers of English as an additional language.
Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction
Jane Coles and Maggie Pitfield
Chapter 2. Adapting Texts, Adapting Practice: Applying Rehearsal Room Methodology to the Study of Novels
Susie Ferguson
Chapter 3. Drama in English: A Decolonial Strategy
Katherine Barber
Chapter 4. Shakespeare on Zoom!
Erin Woodford
Chapter 5. Writing-in-Role: The Significance of Visualising Fictional Worlds Through Drama
Theo Bryer
Chapter 6. Drama-Rich Translanguaging for Multilingual Meaning-Making
Rafaela Cleeve Gerkens and Julie Choi
Chapter 7. Embodied Approaches to English 'Exam Prep' in an Attainment-Driven Climate: 'Coming in through the pleasurable route.'
Camilla Stanger
Chapter 8. Multilingual Digital Storytelling: Enhancing the Learning of English Through Drama
Vicky Macleroy
Chapter 9. Teaching English Under Occupation: Classroom Fictions and the World Outside
Raja' Farah, Ghoson Orouq and Maggie Hulson
References
Index
