A Case Study of Applying Drama Activities in The Language Teaching in Resource Class of Junior High School

• Main Authors: Chia-jung Wu, 吳佳蓉
• Other Authors: Wen-Lung Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/16989512576638138598

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 96 === This research use the way of case study to discuss the change on writing ability and attitude of the students in the resource class of junior high school by applying drama activities teaching. We also realize the implementation status of drama activities and propose the suggestion by students’ works and researcher''s observation interview. The conclusions of this research are listed as below： 1. The drama activity teaching raise the writing ability of students： (1) By the involvement of the drama activities, the words count of the composition written by students of resource class increase. It shows the drama activities improve the cases’ writing ability. (2) By the involvement of the drama activities, it assists the students of resource class to understand writing subject and write according to the leitmotif. (3) At the quality of composition, the drama activities help the students to understand the evolution of the drama and raise their ability to paragraph the composition. (4) At the performance of writing test, these four cases all get more scores on the parts of content thought and organizational structure, but the ability to use punctuation marks, terms, words and rhetoric can not be improved. (5) After the analysis, we found the cases can describe more detail and richer content than before and have more exquisitely emotion expresses. 2. The influence of the drama activity teaching on students’ attitude toward the writing is little. The drama activity teaching did not change the attitude of the cases toward the writing. By using drama activity for writing, the cases did reduce their frustration and have more will to attempt. This is also a kind of invisible change. 3. The response of students to drama activity teaching. (1) Have the courage to express themselves and have rich expression and body movement. (2) Raise the learning achievement. (3) The limitation of special students in drama activity teaching. (4) Found in other research : Except to teach language by drama activity course, it can also raise the learning motives and stimulate the learning potential and self-growth of the students. At last, based on the above discovery and conclusion in this research, we proposed some suggestion for educators and researchers’ reference in the future.