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Our research

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These are some of the acting-theater exercises found to help with the different L2 communicative skills (Gualdron & Castillo, 2018)

Language skills and related actions or activities

L2 

 

Speaking

Group exercises of conversation or improvisation.

Support given by the persons specialized in language.

Rehearsals.

Shows.

Monologues.

Repeating the script several times.

Discussions within the group.

Auditions or castings.

Adapting and recording the script.

Creating sketches and presenting them in front of your classmates.

Pronunciation exercises.

Saying all the text at the same time.

Reading aloud.

Voice and vocal exercises.

Clown games

 

 

Writing

Writing your own text.

Taking a text and making it for theater.

Scripts revisions and corrections.

Keeping a journal.

Creation of the publicity and hand program of the play.

Writing a funny memory from when we were children

Writing a script for an audience.

Writing about the characters.

 

 

Reading

Reading the scripts.

Comprehending the texts.

Reading related texts.

Reading a text to adapt it.

Reading the scripts in group.

Reading more than just one play.

 

 

Listening

Exercises directed in English.

Interaction with other characters of the play.

Rehearsals in general.

Instructions in English.

Listening actively to the others.

Sessions in English.

Improvisation exercises in group.

Castings.

Presentations.

Listening to the others say their text.

The need to act the right way makes you make an effort for listening and comprehending.

Paying attention to the others.

All the oral exercises of repetition.

Listening to your classmates.

 

 

Vocabulary

Reading of the different plays or literary works and bibliographical materials.

Study and deep understanding of the scripts.

Vocabulary improvisation exercises.

Improvisation exercises.

Tasks where you can use the vocabulary.

Group exercises of conversation and improvisation.

Need to understand the words we listen to make sense from them.

Group preparation of scripts of unfamiliar contexts.

Clarifications about the situations and the context.

Studying the register of the language in the play.

Games to connect synonyms and antonyms.

Rehearsals.

Activities in the workshops.

Looking for the meaning of words in the dictionary.

Writing of the scripts.

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Affective filter

Having to expose yourself in front of an audience.

Rehearsals and script practice.

Improvisation exercises.

Speaking in public.

Rehearsals and corrections.

The exercises of space and roles.

Theater exercises favored our expression.

Interaction and interacting exercises.

Set up of the play.

Saying a discourse while having to look at the audience in their eyes.

Conversation exercises.

Theater exercises of agility and corporal expression.

Exercises to know your classmates better.

 

 

Cognitive

Remembering the script with corporal expression.

All the exercises of space and movement.

Exercises of concentration.

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