TESOL France - Motion and Emotion: Exploring powerful theatre techniques for EFL teaching
February 12th, 2011
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Venue: Telecom ParisTech
Room: B312
Presented by Monika Gora
This session explores a range of theatre techniques highly effective when applied to EFL teaching. Examining their use to advance the students' linguistic abilities, self-expression and self-confidence. It aims to provide participants with a series of theatre-based techniques that allow teachers to teach more effectively by taking a more creative approach.
The workshop is aimed at teachers of English as a foreign language introducing drama based methods as a tool for learning.
Monika Gora has had a long carrier in teacher training and teaching several languages with the particular focus on the English language through arts. She is the founder and the director of the International School For Creative Learning successfully incorporating theatre, improvisation, music and art into language teaching. The school specialises in organising inspiring and innovative summer and Easter programmes in the UK for young learners (12-19) as well as teacher training exploring theatre for effective classroom teaching.
More info at www.creative-english.co.uk