The Stage Is Yours: Students As Actors
Sezai Kalafat, F. Duygu Bora, Pelin Balkan, JG Laborda
proceeding (Uluslararası, Hakemli) | Yazar(lar): Sezai Kalafat, F. Duygu Bora, Pelin Balkan, JG Laborda | Yıl: 2014 — Özet: Role-play has been one of the most preferred techniques in language teaching, especially for practicing it. However, the ways that technique is integrated with the teaching process are varied. Bec
Role-play has been one of the most preferred techniques in language teaching, especially for practicing it. However, the ways that technique is integrated with the teaching process are varied. Because the development of technology and its contributions to foreign language teaching cannot be ignored, it was underlined for the students who took part in the study to make use of technology. The application of the study included choosing certain topics from the coursebook, which is the part of the curriculum of Bulent Ecevit University Foreign Languages Preparatory Program, and the groups from each classroom were assigned with one of these topics. The groups were 30 in total. The number of the students in the groups ranged from 2 to 7. As the assigned topics required using daily life speech, the students were asked to write a conversation including the topic and perform it in an appropriate environment. Moreover, these students were asked to record what they performed. This has been achieved by uploading those video records to the computers of school laboratories and the website of Preparatory School. The participants were allowed for 2 weeks to write their dialogue and prepare the video. At the end of the study, a questionnaire was applied to the participants to clarify their motivation. Therefore, all of the students in prep class were both eager about using the language and learned the topics in a more effective way by witnessing using English in daily life and taking the advantage of technology. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.