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Using Drama in ESP: The Interdepartmental Language Centre as a Learning Community
- Source :
- Linguae &. Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 57-65 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Led Edizioni Universitarie, 2019.
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Abstract
- This article seeks to illustrate how the Interdepartmental Language Centre of a university can come to represent a fertile and dynamic learning community. Its specific focus is the use of drama in two ESP courses run by the interdepartmental language centre at the University of Turin (CLA-UniTo). The first was a third-year workshop for trainee primary school teachers, the second a first-year module on a degree course in social work. Both of these courses might be said to bridge the rather ill-defined boundaries between CLIL and ESP, as in both cases language is taught through content and content through language. This cross-curricular focus disrupts the traditional verticalist hierarchy of the teacher-pupil relationship, since the course participants frequently have content-based knowledge and experience in which the “teacher” is lacking. The use of dramatization proved particularly useful in engaging and empowering each individual student in these classes, transforming the learning process into a dynamic, collaborative enterprise.
- Subjects :
- 050101 languages & linguistics
Social work
Learning community
05 social sciences
Primary education
050301 education
Collaborative learning
Constructivist teaching methods
lcsh:Philology. Linguistics
lcsh:P1-1091
Dramatization
Computer-supported collaborative learning
ESP, Drama, Social Work, Teacher Training, Primary Education, Interdepartmental Language Centre, Learning Communities, Collaborative Learning, Constructivist Learning, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Mathematics education
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Sociology
0503 education
Drama
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17248698 and 22818952
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Linguæ & - Rivista di lingue e culture moderne
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ed324bfc24488b47f5e8da2c5288d2fe