scholarly journals USING DRAMA IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO PRIMARY SCHOOL LEARNERS

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Oksana Mykhailova ◽  
Olga Humankova ◽  
Tetiana Grygorieva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Language Capacity ◽  
Positive Effect

The article deals with a thorough analysis of drama techniques in teaching English to primary school learners. The review of literature on the problem under discussion has enabled the authors to conclude that using drama in the process of teaching English is a powerful teaching tool that promotes the development of creativity in the learners and enhances cognitive interest in learning a foreign language. Theoretically, however, the problem is underinvestigated in the Ukrainian context; so, the topicality of the research is ensured by existing difficulties in using drama in teaching English to primary school learners. The challenges are mainly caused by the lack of specially designed tasks for this purpose. Hence, the goal of this article is to outline the theoretical prerequisites and develop a methodologically grounded system of exercises and tasks to use drama in teaching English to primary school learners. The methodology of the research relies on the analysis of the available literature on the issue under investigation, with age and psychological characteristics of primary school learners considered. The paper discusses the approaches to defining the concept of dramatization and reveals the essential characteristics of dramatization in the process of teaching English to primary school children. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the classroom benefits of using drama techniques in teaching English to primary school learners and illustrate them by offering a lesson designed for primary school learners. The material used for the lesson designing is based on the educational and language capacity of fairy tales. The paper concludes that a positive effect of using drama in the primary school classroom contributes to enhancing both language and cognitive skills of young learners.

Traditional Singing Games in English for Teaching Modules Developed According to the Interests of Primary School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penka Kuneva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Teaching Modules ◽  
Singing Games ◽  
Learning English

The report discusses traditional singing games in English and the benefits of their use in teaching English as a foreign language, especially in teaching modules developed according to the interests of primary school students. A review of scholarly articles has been made and some conclusions about using singing games in teaching and learning English as a foreign language has been presented.

scholarly journals OVERCOMING OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH FAIRY TALE THERAPY

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Miopap Samvel Asatryan
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Training Program ◽  
School Children ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Aggressive Behaviour ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Primary Schoolchildren ◽  
Aggressive Reactions

The article provides definitions of aggression, the causes of its occurrence, as well as fairy tale therapy as a means of overcoming aggressive manifestations. A research was conducted to study the psychological characteristics of the aggressive behaviour of younger schoolchildren. The formative linear experiment was used. The method for diagnosing aggression Bass-Darky and Rosenzweig's test of measuring the aggressiveness were carried out. In the aggressive behavior of primary school children is dominated by negative and indirect aggression; verbal and physical aggression are moderately manifested; auto-aggression, insult and suspicion are weakly expressed. More than half of primary schoolchildren have a high level of aggressiveness. In the vast majority of pupils, aggressive reactions are directed to the environment, that is, the orientation of aggression is extrapunitive. In about a quarter of pupils, the orientation of aggression is impunitive, for what happened they attribute the blame to the situation. The weakest expression has the intrapunitive orientation of aggression, when the child considers himself responsible for the event. To overcome the aggressive manifestations of primary schoolchildren, a training program was used, in which therapeutic tales and training exercises were included. If before applying a training program for overcoming agressiveness, aggressive reactions of most younger schoolchildren were directed at others, and they considered others to be responsible for solving the problem, then after implementing the training program the results of the retest show that there has been a sharp increase in the rate of intrapunitive aggression. That is, children began to count, that the solution of the problem depends more on the person, and in case of failure, the person should blame not the other, but own identity. Therapeutic fairy tales are an effective way to overcome the aggressive behaviour of children in educational institutions.

scholarly journals Difficulties in Teaching English Modal Auxiliaries to Turkish Students: A Cognitive Pragmatic Approach

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismail Erton
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Modal Auxiliaries ◽  
Teaching Learning

Recently, attention in modern linguistic theory has been shifted to facilitating a broader understanding of the world, in which language is a tool to establish a bridge between the interlocutor and the recipient. To do so, the development of linguistic, communicative and socio-pragmatic competences enriched with socio-cultural inputs in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) or Second Language (L2) teaching and learning contexts have a significant impact on language learners both to develop their perception as native speakers of English and to facilitate the progress of cognitive skills and capabilities. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate a case study to show some of the difficulties in teaching English modal auxiliaries to Turkish students in EFL/L2 contexts which arise not only from structural characteristics, but also from insufficiently developed linguistic, communicative and socio-pragmatic competencies. It is also asserted that only teaching the lexical properties of modal auxiliaries in isolation from their socio-pragmatic and semiotic contexts alone cannot help learners to become successful communicators in the target language as it ends in communication failures, hesitation, a slower L2 progress, fear and misunderstandings. Therefore, role-play activities, cloze tests, research assignments, writing tasks and songs can also be integrated into the teaching-learning process to assist learners to become more aware of their actual authentic usages in a wide range of contexts through different activities. On the whole, this would also free language learners to refer to their First Language (L1) input and shape a broader understanding of the Foreign Language (FL) framed with its actual authentic usage.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF USING FAIRY-TAILES TO TEACH PUPILS ENGLISH AT PRIMARY SCHOOL

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (9(77)) ◽  
pp. 215-219
Author(s):  
Ernest Ivashkevych ◽  
Nataliia Antyukhova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Creative Learning ◽  
Language Environment ◽  
Linguistic Material

In this article it was shown that studying a foreign language was not possible without the formation of pupils’ socio-cultural competence. Foreign-language socio-cultural competence is the knowledge of the cultural features of native speakers, their habits, traditions, norms of behavior, etiquette, and the ability to understand and adequately use them in intercultural communication, while remaining a model of behavior of a person of another culture. Socio-cultural competence is formed on the materials of fairy-tales determined the success of communication with representatives of foreign language culture, allowing pupils from primary school to feel confident and convenient in a foreign-language environment. It was shown that various kinds of fairy-tales, each of which revealed a particular aspect of the culture of a foreign-language country, became to a teacher a method in helping him/her to form socio-cultural competence of pupils. Choosing a fairy-tale a teacher should take into account the educational objectives of the lesson, so that it becomes a successful means of learning a foreign language. The linguistic material of fairy-tales is based on principles of easy and creative learning. Here the thematic approach is combined with grammatical and semantic ones, and language models and speech patterns are gradually becoming more complex. One and the same sentence scheme can be used in different situations, since talking with a child uses fabulous scenes that do not prevent the emergence of a large number of analogous expressions.

scholarly journals Computer-Based Teaching of Lexis in Primary School

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01116
Author(s):  
Julia Pirverdieva ◽  
Karina Neganova ◽  
Nonna Pelevina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Modern Computer ◽  
Electronic Dictionary ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Lexical Skills ◽  
Definition Of

The article deals with the use of modern computer technologies in the lexical skills formation in primary school students at the foreign language lessons. The work describes the author’s computer-based methods, which include a developed website with a various list of exercises and tasks at the stage of using vocabulary (variant-situational stage): exercises for controlling of vocabulary (correlate words with translation, connect pairs of synonyms or antonyms, and find a definition of a foreign word), thematic crosswords and interactive testing. Also within the framework of the website, we developed a descriptive electronic dictionary with hyperlinks to the context. Various children’s fairy tales were offered as contexts in English. In order to confirm the research hypothesis, an experiment was conducted. The results of the experiment allowed the authors to justify the use of modern ICT at foreign language lessons in order to increase the level of lexical skills of primary school students.

Using Geo-myths in a classroom: towards creative science writing for scholars

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiziana Lanza
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Science Writing ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Science Theatre

<p>Since when together with A. Negrete we theorized the efficaciousness of using geo-myths in a classroom for Earth education purposes (Lanza&Negrete 2007) I have been experimenting the use of them in different science narratives context. In my presentation, I will retrace all the experiences done starting with science theatre, including  Open Air museum, till the more recent  done with scholars of secondary schools for re-writing myths and transforming them in fairy-tales for primary school children. Using geo-myths with students in different context has convinced me of their efficaciousness in spreading the knowledge of the planet, while educating to the respect of the Earth. In my presentation I will give also some precious hints in this sense.</p>

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