The following articles and activities provide different lesson plan options for using theatre in the English language classroom. While many of them were designed for use with the Integrated Skills through Drama series, they can be used with any script, even one students write themselves.
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10 ways to teach English with a play
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| 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) |
