THEATER WORKS IN TURKISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

What is it about?

The language teaching program, materials, learning environment are importantand cannot be limited to students, books and teachers. Now a days, in language teaching, instead of traditional teacher-centered and grammatica lmethods different practices have been used. In these applications, methods which prioritize communication skills development, speaking and listening are applied. Using theater and drama in foreign language teaching is one of the studies that aim to do this. Theater and drama influences the learner's language and social development positively by taking language learning out of the classroom. In this study, the texts using idioms, proverbs and stereotyped expressions with the current events from the life, and the applications of these texts are studied. With this method, the student learns target structures by using not only verbal but also body language. TV programs, newspaper news, and cultural reflections in the background were used in the creation of the theater texts. In this study, visual formats of application works as well as written examples of these texts are given. Theater is the reflection of the life, art and culture and the importance of theater and drama in language teaching cannot be denied. In this study, a sample application of theatre in language learning is present in order to show the current life, to make the language learning more colorful and interesting, to reveal the students the creativity and to make them more active individuals in learning and to adapt them to the social environment .

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Why is it important?

In this work applied theater examples in türkish as a foreign Language.

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