DRAMA AND ESL BIBLIOGRAPHY ---Compiled by Daryl Farrington Walker

Asher, James J., LEARNING ANOTHER LANGUAGE THROUGH ACTIONS: The Complete Teacher’s Guidebook. Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks Productions, Inc. (tel: 408-395-7600), 2003. ISBN 0-940296-50-0

The originator of TPR (Total Physical Response) and his primary TPR guidebook.A must-have for all language teachers!

Burke, Anne and O’Sullivan, Julie, STAGE BY STAGE; A Handbook for Using Drama in the Second Language Classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002ISBN 0-325-00380-7

An excellent book to “dip into” for all levels: activities, role plays, skits, even play production, or to use as a text for teaching ESL through Drama. A thorough, helpful introduction for the teacher on how to start using drama. Excellent bibliography.

Carkin, Gary , TEN PLAYS for the ESL/EFL CLASSROOM and TEN MORE PLAYS for the ESL/EFL CLASSROOM. NH: Carlisle Publ. (www.carlislepublications.com)

Carver, T.K. and Fotinos, S.D. A CONVERSATION BOOK 1 and 2: English in Everyday Life. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall regents, 2000ISBNs 0-13-053174-X and 0-13-728114-5 respectively

Expressive drawings provide settings for a myriad of everyday activities and backdrops for relevant role-plays and other MI language activities.

Garcia, Ramiro, INSTRUCTOR’S NOTEBOOK: How to Apply TPR for Best Results. Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks Productions, 2001

Written by James Asher’s student, a splendid guide to TPR, lesson by lesson.

Graham, Carolyn Graham, RHYTHM AND ROLE PLAY. Studio City, CA: JAG Publications, 1991 ISBN 0-943327-08-3

Using humor to promote natural language and communicative skills, Graham begins each unit with a clever cartoon story, followed by a related rhythmic play for all students in the class. Structured and improvised activities adaptable to all levels.

See also her GRAMMAR CHANTS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 and JAZZ CHANTS FOR CHILDREN, MOTHER GOOSE JAZZ CHANTS, JAZZ CHANT FAIRY TALES, HOLIDAY JAZZ CHANTS. (Obtain thru Miller Educational Materials, Buena Park, CA, tel: 1-800-636-4375)

Clever, engaging chants, songs, tales, rhymes, and poems to teach conversational English and basic language structures.

Nomura, Yoko, PINCH AND OUCH: English Through Drama. Lingual House Shuppansha, 1985. ISBN 78379

A course designed around 16 thematic units to help non-native speakers breakthrough from studying English to using English. Each unit includes a lesson dialogue, variations, and situations for enacting the dialogue, practice suggestions, language building activities and improvisations. A find if you can locate it!

Olsen, Judy Winn-Bell, LOOK AGAIN PICTURES! Burlingame, CA: Alta Publishing (tel 1-800-ALTAESL) – ISBN 1-88-2483-70-7 (gr. 2-5)

Find the 8 differences between two (almost) identical pictures. The search invites careful observation and problem solving and stimulates communication. Fun!

Ito, Nina and Anne Berry, THE GREAT BIG BINGO BOOK. Brattleboro, VT: Pro Lingua Associates, 2001

Instead of using numbers, this BINGO book present varied, creative ways to play bingo while practicing English Language structures and everyday topics – from actions and gestures to sports and holidays. Great fun!( #0-86647-140-5)

Kelner, Lenore Blank, THE CREATIVE CLASSROOM. Portsmouth, NH:Heinemann, 1993

Designed for teachers with no prior experience with drama, this book presents versatile, uncomplicated, multisensory activities that promote language development and thinking skill for students of all learning styles and levels.

Ladousse, Gilhan Porter, ROLE PLAY. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-19-437-095Y

A teacher’s guide to using verbal and nonverbal role play , teacher-directed and student –created. Over 60 short sections explore important current issues and situations with examples, materials and techniques. Fascinating approach to language practice and learning.

Marquez, Nancy, LEARNING WITH MOVEMENT: TPR for Young Children.Los Gatos, CA: Sky Oaks Productions, 2001

Simple format with easily accessible lessons for K-3 teachers.

Romijn, Elizabeth and Seely, Contee, LIVE ACTION ENGLISH and TPR IS MORE THAN COMMANDS. Burlingame, CA: Alta Publishing, 1-800 ALTAESL.

The former includes 67 series of commands based on Asher’s TPR – an ideal energy charge for students, facilitating memory, emphasizing verbs and providing lively contexts for word meaning in everyday situations. (#0-929724-16-XSBD)The latter teaches how TPR can be used to teach a variety of language skills and structures at all levels, including 7 ways to teach verb tenses, grammar, idioms, and storytelling. (#0-929724-14-3)

Swartz, Larry, THE NEW DRAMA THEMES. 3RD edition, 2002. Stenhouse Publishers: 1-800-644-5280.

More than 100 games, drama activities and assorted MI strategies for K-6 to integrate reading, writing, listening, speaking with the arts. Reproducible. Includes 12 assessment profiles and rubrics. A favorite of teachers!

Trenga, Bonnie, OFF-THE-WALL SKITS WITH PHRASAL VERBS. Studio City, Calif.: Jag Publications, 2003. ISBN 0-943327-28-8

Silly characters and short situations can bring laughter and natural English to class as students practice and learn 120 phrasal verbs through skits and written exercises.

Via, Richard A., ENGLISH IN THREE ACTS. Hawaii: University Press of Hawaii, 1976ISBN 0-8248-0380-9

An excellent, resourceful but out-of-print book provides the application of acting and dramatization techniques to classroom English teaching for intermediate and adult students, or for play production. Includes short plays, annotated play list, play production information, theatrical glossary. Simple to sophisticated exercises. Find it if you can! (Try www. Alibris.com)

Wessels, Charlyn, DRAMA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.ISBN 0-19-437097-6

An in-depth, British approach to introduce drama techniques and 40 “drama games”, to improve basic drama-ESL coursework , to reinforce previous knowledge, and to explore actors’ voice training techniques to classroom learning.

Whiteson, Valerie and Horovitz, Nava, THE PLAY’S THE THING: A Whole Language Approach to Learning English. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. ISBN 0-312-15452-6

Using lively selections from 14 modern plays, students study excellent writing while practicing four language skills. Each segment is acted then followed by relevant activities that develop vocabulary, comprehension, discussion and writing, and offer related contemporary situations, and assignments for further exploration.

Whiteson, Valerie, Ed., Whiteson, Valerie, Ed., NEW WAYS OF USING DRAMA AND LITERATURE INNEW WAYS OF USING DRAMA AND LITERATURE IN LANGUAGE TEACHING.LANGUAGE TEACHING. Alexandria, Va.: TESOL, 1996 Alexandria, Va.: TESOL, 1996 .ISBN 939791-66-8.ISBN 939791-66-8From teachers around the world comes a collection of novel ways to use From teachers around the world comes a collection of novel ways to use drama in thedrama in theESL classroom. One of four sections, “Drama”, addresses higher levels in unique ESL classroom. One of four sections, “Drama”, addresses higher levels in unique ways.ways.

Ur, Penny and Wright, Andrew, FIVE-MINUTE ACTIVITIES: A Resource Book of Short Activities. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993 ISBN 0-521-39781-2

Short, fast, easy and fun MI activities to supplement English language teaching. Useful as warm-ups, fillers, vocabulary review, orientation, or games to cheerfully round off a lesson.

Other titles suggested to me for you to check out:

Bolton, G. Drama as Education – An Argument for Placing Drama in the Centre of the Curriculum. London: Longman., 1984

Finger, Alexis Gerard. The Magic of Drama: An Oral Performance Activity Book. ISBN 1-895451-34-5. Well-known movies, plays, songs, poetry, proverbs, pictures – resourceful! For high school/college/adults

Grisewood, Emma and Myles, Jane, Eds. Classic Plays: English Activities to Photocopy ISBN 1-900702-74-6 Graded adaptations of Twain, Dickens, Hawthorne, Shelley, Doyle.

Heathcote, D., and Bolton, G. Drama for Learning: Dorothy Heathcote’s ‘Mantle of the Expert Approach to Education. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 1995

Heinig, Ruth. Creative Drama in the Classroom (see chapter on using drama in the ESL school room).

Hess, Natalie, All The World’s a Stage: Drama for Communication. Delta Systems distrib. ISBN 1-882483-66-9. Plot summaries, pre/post activities for intermed/advanced.

Holden, S. Drama in Language Teaching. Harlow: Longman, 1981

Laitta, Christine and Weakland, Mark. The Dramatically Different Classroom: MI Activities Lacross the Curriculum. Burlingame, Calif.: Alta Book Center Publ. ISBN 1-879097-67-2

Lozano, Patti. Mighty Mini-Plays for the ESL Classroom:12 Short Humorous Plays for Intermediate Level (mid/hi school and adults), distributed by Alta Book Center Publ and Delta Systems.. ISBN 0-9708861-1-X

Romijn, Elizabeth and Seely, Contee. Live Action English. Burlingame, Calif.: Alta Book Center Publ.. ISBN 0-929724-16-X SB plus cassettes. 67 commands and 40 picture sequences, based on Asher’s TPR approach, integrate pictures with text.

Spaventa, Lou, Improvisations for Creative Language Practice. Pro Lingua Publishsers.

Takahashi, Noriko. Action English Pictures. Burlingame, Calif.: Alta Book Center Publ. ISBN 1-882483-71-5. 66 picture sequences based on Asher’s TPR, for beginners. Companion book to Romijn and Seely book above.

Websites:

http://msu.edu/~caplan/drama/links.htm

The Ultimate Collection of Drama in ESL links” compiled by members of TESOL-Drama and EVO 2005 workshop

http://tesol.org

egroup-drama@lists.tesol.org = TESOL Drama E-group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EVO_drama_2005

http://garycarkin/tripod.com/garycarkinseslefldramalog = Gary’s ESL and EFL Drama log and blog.

www.dramainelt.org = link to other English-through-Drama sites in Europe

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NOTE: Please feel free to contact me should you have questions. Daryl in North Carolina at dfwalker99@hotmail.com. Good luck!!!