LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:2 February 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
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         Renuga Devi, Ph.D.
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Constructivism in Teaching Foreign Language’s Drama
(Teaching Method for Second Language’s Students)

Rita Sutjiati, Tri Wahyu Retno Ningsih, and Suci Budiwaty

Abstract

Teaching classic drama appreciation needs certain strategy. English classic drama manuscript and absurd genre of it creates its own difficulties to the learners. This research uses constructivism method to teach classic drama to the students as the second language learners. Constructivism approach in teaching drama was chosen because of the uniqueness. This approach got the main orientation about how the knowledge was managed in the student’s thoughts. The result of this research showed that by playing drama, students as both players and playgoers, were succeed doing interaction and communication. They were active enough to spread the ideas, emotion, feel, punctuality and adaptation. Using the constructivism approach, they could use any chance to practice two important things in learning language process, which were receptive and productive. Students could play as both characters and playgoers as well. They also could deeply contribute to a drama performance.

Keywords: constructivism, teaching, drama, receptive, productive.

Introduction

Ferdinand Brunetiere (1924) defined drama is an art which portrayed characteristics and human being and had to show the real action and behavior of human being. In other words, drama contained story which is the duplication of human being and daily life. Drama as daily life imitation could become a great way for learning foreign language and understanding classic literatures in different cultures from the student’s backgrounds.

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Rita Sutjiati, Tri Wahyu Retno Ningsih, and Suci Budiwaty
Faculty of Letters
Gunadarma University
Jakarta 10440
Indonesia
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