Using Drama in the ESL Classroom
Sunday, April 22nd, 2001, 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Speaker: Ohno Akihiko
Mr. Ohno is a free-lance dramatist who is involved in education and theater. He gives workshops on how to use drama in second language classrooms. He always starts his workshops with simple, non-verbal warm-up games and gradually moves on to verbal games with lead-in exercises. The underlying philosophy of the entire workshop is that everything you do and say will be accepted. Some activities that Mr. Ohno uses are:
- Creating a shared story-small groups make stories spontaneously.
- Making a monologue-everyone starts walking at random and start self-talking on the subject assigned by the workshop leader.
- Dialogue: After participants become comfortable with being characters, they are put into pairs and start a dialogue in a given situation.
- Dubbing- one person becomes an "actor" and does all the stage movements while his or her partner provides the voice.
Organization: Hokkaido Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (Hokkaido JALT)
Cost: JALT Members: free
Non-members: 1000 yen
Venue: Hokkaido International School (5 minutes from Sumikawa Station)
Location: Sapporo City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan
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