The Design and Practice of Creative Drama in Chinese Language Curriculum

• Main Authors: WEN, CHIA-HUI, 温嘉惠
• Other Authors: CHI,WAN-HSIAN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ebe89n

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 華語文教學碩士學位學程 === 106 === In Chinese language teaching, the predominant methodology is didactic, one-way input, ignoring the importance of dialogic, two-way communication. Creative Drama stimulates student to provide more input which create a two-way communication-friedly enviroment, students could then be gradully guided by teacher to imagine and experience during learning process. In order to help learners achieve effective output as well as input, the current study explores the feasibility and efficacy of integrating Creative Drama into the design and teaching of Chinese language courses. Considering the stimulating characteristics of Creative Drama, particularly for short-term Chinese classes, we expect to promote students’ spontaneous collaborative learning and enhance their overall fluency by contextually linking nonverbal to verbal output. Through Creative Drama activities, students are encouraged to gain a higher degree of accomplishment so as to reinforce their motivation to learn Chinese. This research is divided into five chapters. The first chapter describes the research background and motivation, purpose, and problems. The second chapter discusses the literature: the history of the use of drama in education, Creative Drama teaching activities, collaborative teaching methodology, and second langauge teaching theory. The third chapter is the research method and research framework. The study implements action research in two short-term Chinese classes at the basic and advanced level. The fourth chapter is the research results and analysis. The effect of Creative Drama activities is analyzed from the experimental results. The fifth chapter draws conclusions based on the initial research purpose of the study and provides recommendations for the findings and conclusions. The conclusions of this research are as follows: First, the cooperative learning model can be applied to Creative Drama to significantly reduce anxiety; Second, multiple activities positively affect learners' active learning ability and motivation in short-term Chinese classes. Third, Creative Drama teaching can enhance the ability of listening and speaking.