How do ELT professionals use drama in their classes?
Drama can be used with young children who have limited linguistic skills, middle and high schoolers, and adult learners having a basic or high proficiency in the language. Drama can be used to introduce vocabulary and new phrases while working with young students. They can be introduced to movement activities that may review spatial directions and parts of the body. To develop the listening skills you might tell a story while the young learners, who do not have sufficient linguistic skills but enough potential, enact it. Miming emotions could also be within their reach. Adult learners appreciate role-playing activities as these give them an opportunity to speak in a context and a situation. Role-plays such as asking for directions in a subway station give them practice for actual encounters. Current class materials can also be used as a springboard to role-plays. Characters from poems, stories, articles or songs that students have read and heard in class can be the take off points for
