Notes from the Classroom: Improvisation and Language Acquisition: Actor Training as a Tool To Enhance Fluency.

Butt, Rex

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ERIC Number: EJ618127

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Notes from the Classroom: Improvisation and Language Acquisition: Actor Training as a Tool To Enhance Fluency.

Butt, Rex

College ESL, v8 n2 p58-63 Dec 1998

Discusses the use of improvisational acting exercises as a productive tool for overcoming reticence in English-as-a-Second-Language students. The approach stresses participation rather than accuracy of production. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Acting, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Fluency, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Student Participation, Teaching Methods, Theater Arts

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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