Susanne Even (Worcester) p.35-51
2004 Issue 1
Abstract
This article is composed of two separate, although overlapping, conference contributions, a paper and a workshop. Part I, the paper, introduces the concept of dramagrammar (drama in education for grammar teaching) and outlines its genesis in the context of third-level foreign language teaching in Britain and Ireland. Traditional problems of foreign language grammar teaching are described and solutions from dramagrammar are offered. A prototypical model of the dramagrammar lesson follows. Part II, the workshop, describes a practical dramagrammar session that took place at the conference. Moving from pantomime to dramatic play, workshop participants experienced dramagrammar as the inherently social activity that it is.