Education meets arts: ’dramatic’ experiences in the foreign language classroom

Renata Botwina

Uniwersytet Warszawski

Abstract

The article entitled ”Education meets arts: ’dramatic’ experiences in the foreign language classroom” aims at presenting drama as an effective tool to be used in the foreign language classroom. It describes the beginnings of drama-in-education and presents the most common drama strategies. The author proves that in the modern English language classroom dramabased activities are an invaluable source of meaningful communicative simulations. Firstly, drama motivates shy students to participate in the group activities; secondly, drama-based activities have an endless communicative potential being based on everyday communicative situations; finally, they enlighten the classroom atmosphere and break the ice bringing fun and joy both for the students and the teacher.

Keywords:

drama-in-education, drama-based activities, drama strategies, communicative approach, motivation, real-life language situations