In the Loop of Meaning Making: Exploring the Impacts of Drama Strategies to Students’ Reading Comprehension

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.023How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Drama, Students, Reading, Comprehension

Abstract

This article presents a case of two students who worked individually and collaboratively by using two drama strategies for providing in depth meaning making after reading. The case study was part of a one-year study that investigated the integration of educational drama strategies in an Islamic school in United States. Drawing upon transactional theory of reading, research about educational drama, and strategic actions of text processing of reading, observations and personal interviews were the methods used to explain participants’ actions and thinking strategies as they were reading a novel and preparing for a dramatic performance. Through discourse analysis of the interactions, the participants evidently shared some similar range of strategic actions like inquiring for more information, making connections, and responding to the classroom literature when individually read the texts, differing only in their text productions and styles of performance. Nevertheless, situated by their roles and the objectives of the dramatic performance, both students performed different strategic actions, such as thinking within, about, and beyond texts, while working together to create a dramatic performance. Though the study took place in English speaking country, this study could shed a light on teaching reading comperehension in ESL/EFL contexts.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - I Rifai
AU  - A A T Kariko
AU  - U P Dewi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - In the Loop of Meaning Making: Exploring the Impacts of Drama Strategies to Students’ Reading Comprehension
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st UMGESHIC International Seminar on Health, Social Science and Humanities (UMGESHIC-ISHSSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 146
EP  - 155
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.023
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.023
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