Intermediate oral communication students in a staged performance of Rising Water.
The following articles and activities provide different lesson plan options for working with oral communication in the English language classroom.
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10 ways to teach English with a play
Simulation_Wedding_Party
Pragmics_Lesson_Praising_Lonnie_Kim
Pragmatics_Lesson_ Wearing_Aida_Down
Readers Theater_for_English_Learners
Using a play to work on pronunciation
Theatre techniques for assessing performance
The Use of Drama in English Language Teaching – Paul Davies
Academic speaking strategy
lesson plan for the confession
Pedagogical resources that contain cultural capital are crucial for ESL learners who may be expected to use English in international settings where the kind of cultural knowledge shared by English-speaking communities is implicitly valued. Without this knowledge, they must always be perceived as less competent, more ‘foreign’, no matter how correct their grammar and how impressive their functional language use might be. |
— Cheng & Winston (2014) |