Acting French: Drama Techniques in the Second Language Classroom.

Abstract

LEARNING TO USE A SECOND LANGUAGE is, in many ways, like learning become a different person. In a book entitled The Theater Arts and the Teaching of Second Languages Stephen M. Smith traces the parallels between acting and second-language learning. According Smith, both language students and actors are involved in communicating a message others. In order be successful, both must decide what message is appropriate and how communicate it and then they must perform competently be understood by their audience (2). Smith sees the role of the language teacher as similar that of the theatrical director. The teacher, like the director, should try to create a setting conducive language learning, and direct the learners toward the attainment of their goal, that of effective communica

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