DRAMA BASED APPROACH IN READING COMPREHENSION
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2016
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Suleyman Demirel University
Abstract
Basically teaching English as a foreign or second language involves a balance between
receptive and productive skills; this way, drama can effectively deal with this requirement. By
applying drama activities, the class will practice and integrate all language skills and reading
skills as well. The drama activities involve learners and teachers in thinking and working like
actors, directors, playwrights, audience members, and critics. Drama activities invite students
and teachers to take text on the page and use it on the stage. Reading comprehension itself is the
ability to read and understand text. By using drama, we can engage learners with the text in order
to deepen their understanding of the text. The purpose of this study is to find out how to develop
reading comprehension through drama based approach and investigate a feedback of introducing
new innovative method of drama in reading classes in Kazakhstan. For this research, we
investigated the sample groups studying Analytical Reading, where the teacher has been
applying elements of drama. Consequently, we collected data from these sample groups and
interviewed the teacher. In this paper, we will present implementation of drama for developing
reading comprehension , together with 2 tools for its evaluation(questionnaire, interview).We
believe that educators and learners should benefit from the outcomes of our research.
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Drama, reading class, reading comprehension, language skills, motivation, benefits
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DRAMA BASED APPROACH IN READING COMPREHENSION, Orynbasarova F.K., 2016