A Study of Dramatic Activities Applied in the Middle School’s English Classroom

Abstract Deprived from Rousseau’s idea of “learning in activities” and “learning from drama”, drama in education has been fully developed both theoretically and practically until now。 From western countries to China, drama in education has been studied and contributed further and further by hundreds of scholars and educators。 It is exactly conforms to the advanced theories in education, such as Humanistic Psychology, Constructivist Learning Principle, Cooperative Learning Principle, Task-based Language Teaching and Communicative Language Teaching。 And it also satisfies the requirements of The Compulsory English Curriculum Standards which emphasizes students’ overall development, including the comprehensive language competence and the ability to use language in real situation, and in the meantime, the proficiency of students' listening, speaking, reading and writing should also be developed。90001

Therefore, drama in education should be studied and dramatic activities are recommendable in middle school’s English classroom。 This thesis will combine dramatic activities with English teaching and put forward some practical suggestions。 In order to have a better understanding of dramatic activities applied in middle school’s English classroom, this study is firstly to observe the current situation in real classroom to find out the existing problems。 Then, possible reasons should be analyzed after interview and questionnaire as well。 According to the reasons, what kind of dramatic activities can be applied in middle school’s English classroom and how to apply them should be answered in this thesis。

Key words: drama in education; dramatic activities; middle school; English classroom

关于初中英语课堂上戏剧性活动的应用的研究

摘  要 戏剧教育可以追溯到卢梭“在实践中学习”和“通过戏剧学习”的理念，并且直到现在为止，戏剧教育不管是在理论上还是实践上都得到了全方面的发展。从西方国家到中国，成千上万的学者和教育家都对戏剧教学进行了不断的探索，作出了巨大的贡献。戏剧教育的思想的却符合先进的教育思想，例如人本主义心理学、建构主义理论、合作学习理论、任务型教学理论和交际教学法。而且它也满足了义务教育新课程标准的要求。新课标强调的是学生的全面发展，包括语言理解能力、在实际情景中的应用能力，与此同时，学生的听、说、读、写能力都应该要得到发展。90001

因此，戏剧教育值得探究，戏剧性活动在中学英语课堂上值得推崇。本文将把戏剧性活动和英语教学结合起来，并且提出一些实际应用的建议。为了能对初中英语课堂上所应用的戏剧性活动有更好的了解，本次研究会首先观察初中英语课堂上的实际情况，发现目前存在的一些问题，然后通过采访调查和问卷调查分析可能的原因。最后根据这些原因，提出建议：什么类型的戏剧性活动能在初中英语课堂上应用，怎样才能更好地应用戏剧性活动。

毕业论文关键词： 戏剧教育；戏剧性活动；初中；英语课堂

Contents

Chapter 1。 Introduction 1

1。1 Background of the Research 1

1。2 Significance of the Research 2

1。3 Purpose of the Research 3

1。4 Layout of the Thesis 3

Chapter 2。 Literature Review