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Modern English drama texts (Death of a Salesman and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) as instructional materials

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Evidence · 2 claims (1 for, 1 against) · 1 study (1 causal), q3 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

The treatment materials were two modern English drama texts, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Albee's Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, taught over ten weeks to 18 treatment students. The texts "contain so many short phrases, colloquial words, English idioms, slangs and daily short dialogues which can motivate students to use them in their daily conversations". Students used familiar phrases learned from the texts in short sentences during treatment.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Texts must be prepared and conceived before the lesson; teachers must decide why they want to apply dramatic methods with a particular class

Constraints

  • The texts contain little grammatical content and are based on informal oral communication, which the article links to students' accuracy not improving

Target Learners

  • Upper-intermediate university EFL students

Learning Goals

  • Speaking fluency and communicative competence

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Kian Pishkar, Ahmad Moinzadeh & Azizallah Dabaghi. (2017). Modern English Drama and the Students’ Fluency and Accuracy of Speaking. English Language Teaching, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n8p69
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title Modern English drama texts (Death of a Salesman and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf) as instructional materials
description The treatment materials were two modern English drama texts, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Albee's Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, taught over ten weeks to 18 treatment students.
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