The influence of Reader’s Theater on High School Students’ English Reading Comprehension-English Learning Anxiety and Learning Styles Perspective

The study aimed to investigate the effects of Reader’s Theater on EFL learners’ English reading comprehension. The roles of English learning anxiety and learning styles in the RT instruction were also explored. Mixed methods research was conducted to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data. The subjects were 11 graders in a senior high school in New Taipei City. There were 25 students in the experimental group and 26 in the control group, and the total number of students was 51. Experiment group received RT instruction for 16 periods in 16 weeks, while the control group was distributed with the same scripts without RT instruction as outside reading. Reading tests based on scripts were adopted to examine the difference of learners’ reading comprehension with RT instruction intervention. Questionnaires of Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety and learning styles were conducted to realize the correlations among learners. To understand students’ views on RT instruction, 24 subjects from the experimental group received an interview. The results of the study indicated that most students thought RT helped improve their reading comprehension. In addition, most students regarded that RT decreased English learning anxiety. However, among the six stages of RT, Instant Reading was the stage that students felt most anxious because they were worried about others’ opinions. Finally, the study found that RT was a suitable platform for students with different learning styles. However, RT provided less time for students with visual modality to practice and learn best. It was suggested that instructors adopting RT instruction could use more pictures or graphic organizers.

“I Can't Stop Singing”

There is a long history of research on theater and performance supporting literacy skills, especially fluency and comprehension. Most of this work is based on drama and plays and has been adapted to the classroom level in the form of Reader's Theater. Musicals, however, with their combination of acting, dancing, and singing, offer unique benefits to struggling literacy learners. This chapter will make the argument that modern musicals, particularly those rooted in popular culture and oriented toward children, allow for growth possibilities in all components of literacy.

Teaching About Partnerships Between Patients and the Team: Exploring Student Perceptions

Health profession educators are responding to shifting approaches where patients are increasingly recognized as partners in an interprofessional care process. To foster competencies related to partnerships between patients and the team, educators have advanced the role of patient partners; however, an appreciation of resulting student learning is in its early stages. First-year students from 9 programs interacted with patient partners and participated in a Reader’s Theater that explored partnerships with patients in an interprofessional team. Students completed reflective assignments; an inductive thematic analysis explored student learning. The following 4 overarching themes were recognized: developing insights through patient perspective, promoting partnerships with patients, recognizing attitudes that promote therapeutic relationships, and advocating for the patient to be a team member. Accompanying subthemes provide enhancement of each of the identified themes. Students discussed the effect of poor collaboration, identified attitudes that promote collaboration, and expressed the value of advocacy for patient partnership. An enriched appreciation of student learning will guide educator engagement of patient partners in both health professional and interprofessional curricula.

META- ANALYSIS OF THE USE MOVIE TRAILER IN EFL CLASSROOMTHE EFFECT OF THE READER’S THEATER TECHNIQUE ON THE ENGLISH STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ACHIEVEMENT AT STKIP PGRI JOMBANG

The objective of speaking class is to improve and develop students’ speaking skill to be fluent, correct and accurate. One of techniques applied on that speaking class is Reader’s Theatre. Reader’s theatre can encourage students to speak English fluently with correct vocabulary, pronounce words well and speak with a good structure. This study aims to know the effectiveness from reader’s theatre toward students’ speaking skill at STKIP PGRI Jombang. The population of this study is all students of 2017 English department while the samples are 2017 A students and 2017 B students. The research design applies quasi experiment with a test as the instrument and calculate the data with ANCOVA. It shows that the significant value is 0,003, it is lower than the significant level 0,05. The result of the study shows that there is a significant effect to reader’s theatre on students’ speaking skill at STKIP PGRI Jombang and reader’s theatre can give a good result on students’ speaking skill.

READING FLUENCY THROUGH READER’S THEATER.

El inglés es el idioma oficial de la ciencia y la tecnología. La mayor parte de la información publicada en el internet está escrita en este idioma, por esa razón para ser considerado un profesional competente se debe aprender inglés desde los niveles iniciales de formación para desarrollar destrezas que permitan acceder a información actualizada. Con respecto a la destreza lectora, la exactitud, prosodia y el utomatismo son elementos básicos que se consideran regularmente en las aulas ecuatorianas. En este contexto, el objetivo de la presente investigación fue determinar la correlación de la estrategia del “Reader’s Theatre” en el desarrollo de la fluidez lectora. La población investigada fue un grupo de niños entre 10 y 12 años de edad con quienes se aplicó una metodología basada en el enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo con la utilización de trabajo de campo y un diseño cuasi experimental. En la fase de experimento, se empleó la estrategia del “Reader’s Theatre” mediante el uso de libretos y rúbricas aplicadas a 82 estudiantes de una institución primaria pública. Para la medición de la efectividad de la estrategia se utilizó un pre test y un post test. Los resultados demuestran que la estrategia del “Reader’s Theatre” mejora la fluidez lectora.