HKDSE 2012

Learning English through Drama

You have been surfing a website on the use of drama techniques in education. You have seen the following
topic on an online forum and are now writing your response.

Many teachers incorporate drama into their lessons as they feel it has various educational benefits.
However some parents are against this as they feel that learning cannot take place through drama.
What is your opinion? Please share your experience of learning through drama with us!

In drama their
teacher
teaching.
recent into
years, many incorporate
Whether drama benefits education has stirred
brings in
up heat controversy
among teachers and parents. The former believes that drama helps improve
the atmosphere in
teaching while the others
argue that it is useless in
delivering
knowledge. From
my point of view, my personal experience as a student has

tool
proven that drama is a powerful in classroom.

To with, drama interactions in class, sitting there and

begin encourages
to for often find
listening the lecture
eight hours
straight, students it

difficult concentrate. the dramas lesson allows students

to On
contrasy, in

and teachers in active learning, instead of attending dull lessons all

engage
day. Compared with the
ordinary lessons with
only teachers
talking for hours,
interactive dramas the Students
make lessons more interesting. are more likely
to
engage in the
discussions, developing their interests in the subject.

Besides, I believe that dramas education, based

encourage thinking in on

past Instead of in
words, teacher asked of
my experience. explaining my each

to different stakeholders event duri Economic lessons.

us
roleplay in an

from LOUD-19
was
acting as unemployed person suffering economic recession in

pandemic. Asked to outine the

point of view in a forum, I found it more

effective to focus in the classes. Putting ourselves into the

characters,
We were able to achieve a better
understanding in the topic than

doubt
flipping through this
teaching
No
just pages on textbook. style was

this
a
great success as
everyone enjoyed a lot in
thought
forum. Not does dramas provide interesting
provoking only learning
a more

environment, but also helps enthusiasm the

it
enhancing our in
topic.
It students to themselves into others'
encourage put shoes, Dramas
undoubtedly
is effective lecture such politics, and
more in some as
psychology macro-

from
economics. On one side, it envokes critical thinking various perspective, avoiding
lessons to be too dull on the other side.

Despite the sounds

against the of drama
opposing use
techniques in

it still undeniable that dramas such

education, is as
roleplaying is
beneficial students. Parents favours traditional have
to who
teaching style may
extremely high in drama could bring. Many of
Over-looking the values education

them have misunderstood that drama is a waste of time. In fact,

dramas allow students to
get through concepts in lecture in a
way more

elaxing style.