Story dramatization pattern: rewriting a textbook story into dialogue scenes taught through role play over multiple sessions

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

Description

The article's experimental treatment converted the prescribed textbook story The Boy from the Past into a dramatized script and taught it through role play. "The Boy from the Past was rewritten into thirteen scenes in dialogue format and taught through dramatization in ffteen sessions over a period of nine weeks." Students worked in groups to role play the dramatized scenes, answered questions about them, and produced writing tied to each episode's focus (e.g., thesis statement modeling and paragraph production).

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• A source story from the students' own textbook
• A teacher trained by the researchers to follow set procedures for each session

Constraints

• Studied with male eighth-grade EFL students in one Jordanian school; the observation was unstructured and had no validity or reliability check

Target Learners

• EFL eighth-grade secondary students

Learning Goals

• Writing performance across thesis statement, unity, completeness and coherence, wording and cohesion, and organization

Claims

• Drama Based Instruction Improves Efl Writing Overall [+M]
• Drama Instruction Significant All Five Writing Aspects [+M]

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Key Sources

• Bataineh, R. F., & Salah, N. A. (2017). The Effectiveness of Drama-Based Instruction in Jordanian EFL Students' Writing Performance. TESOL International Journal, 12(2). https://tiij.org

Page metadata

Field	Value
type	design
id	textbook-story-dramatization-pattern
title	Story dramatization pattern: rewriting a textbook story into dialogue scenes taught through role play over multiple sessions
description	The article's experimental treatment converted the prescribed textbook story The Boy from the Past into a dramatized script and taught it through role play.
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-01
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — bataineh-2017

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