2018/04/01 Eucharia Donnery

Drama-Based Activities in the Mixed-Ability Japanese EFL Classroom

by Eucharia Donnery

In our roles as educators, how can we best engage and motivate our students and support them in their linguistic journeys? Donnery's workshop demonstrated how the use of drama-based activities in the mixed-ability Japanese EFL classroom can meet with learner needs. Gunma JALT participants were encouraged to reflect upon their own teaching situations and enjoyed short, medium and long term drama activities that can be adapted into various educational environments. Attendees received various practical ideas on how to help the students empower themselves through easy-to-use drama techniques.

Eucharia Donnery currently works as a computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and sociology lecturer in the Department of Applied Computer Sciences, Shonan Institute of Technology, Kanagawa. Her PhD research in drama-based pedagogy focused on how the use of process drama projects could help students move study for English to learning through English and simultaneously developing intercultural communicative competence. She has worked in the Japanese educational system for nineteen years.