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Influence of Curriculum-Based Readers Theater in Marine Education on Sixth Graders' Oceanic Knowledge and Vocabulary Knowledge
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Chin-Wen Chien; Yi-Han Huang – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2024
This study explored the influence of using Curriculum-Based Readers Theater (CBRT) on promoting 12 sixth graders' oceanic knowledge and vocabulary learning in an elementary school in Taiwan. Based on the analysis of both quantitative (oceanic knowledge tests and vocabulary knowledge tests) and qualitative data (interviews, videos, and…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Teaching Methods, Marine Education, Grade 6
Harnessing Speculative Fiction to Reimagine and Rewrite Our Relationships to the Climate Crisis and the Future of Our Local Environments
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Kathleen Gallagher; Ashleigh A. Allen; Christine Balt – Research in Drama Education, 2024
In this article, we examine the fraught task of doing drama-based work on the climate crisis with youth in schools at a time of increasing climate fatalism. We focus on what a virtual, speculative fiction writing and performance workshop achieved with students in Coventry, Kaohsiung and Bogotá by inviting them to rewrite the futures of local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fiction, Drama Education, Futures (of Society)
The Effect of Readers Theater on EFL Seventh-Graders' Reading and Listening Comprehension
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Lo, Chih-Cheng; Wen, Hsifu; Lin, Yi-Shuang – SAGE Open, 2021
While the effect of Readers Theater (RT) on English oral reading fluency has been extensively investigated, research on the effect of RT on adolescents' English reading and listening comprehension was scant and yielded different results. This research aimed to explore how RT instruction influenced English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students,…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Reading Instruction, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension
Using Readers Theater as a Facilitator in Elementary School English Training
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Lin, Ya-Fen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2015
The purpose of the study aimed to investigate the effect of the Readers Theater (RT) training on elementary school students. In particular, changes in the students' English reading comprehension before and after the RT show, comparison of the students' responses to English learning, especially English reading, the students' opinions on the RT…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Elementary School Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Reading Comprehension
The Application of Readers Theater to FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools) Reading and Writing
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Tsou, Wenli – Foreign Language Annals, 2011
This study used a mixed-method approach to investigate the effectiveness of Readers Theater (RT) in promoting English as a foreign language children's reading and writing proficiency after a participation period of one semester. In addition, the researcher recorded and analyzed children's learning motivation and feedback toward RT. The…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Reading Comprehension, Theater Arts
Theatre as Therapy, Therapy as Theatre Transforming the Memories and Trauma of the 21 September 1999 Earthquake in Taiwan
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Chang, Ivy I-Chu – Research in Drama Education, 2005
On 21 September 1999, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Taiwan destroyed more than 100,000 houses, causing 2,294 deaths and 8,737 injuries. In the aftermath of the earthquake, a great number of social workers and cultural workers were thrust into Nantou County and Taichung County of central Taiwan, the epicentre of the earthquake, to assist the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High Schools, Workshops, Psychotherapy