EDU 3202 Theatre in TESL

1. EDU 3202 Theatre in TESL Pensyarah : Juridah Md Rashid Phone No : 03 89468183/0172550212 Email : juridah.rashid@gmail.com Blogspot : www.juridahrashid.blogspot.com Address : Jabatan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Kemanusiaan Fakulti Pengajian Pendidikan UPM 43400 Serdang

2. Nama Kursus:Theatre in TESL • Kod Kursus:EDU 3202 • Kredit:3 (2+1) • Semester:Kedua 2010/2011 • Pensyarah:Juridah Md Rashid

3. Required text • Milling , Jane and Ley, Graham (2001) Modern Theories of Performance. Basingstoke Palgrave

4. Penilaian • Play Review 20% • Script Writing 20% • Performance (2) 40% • Final Examination 20%

5. Assignment 1 (Play Review) • You are to view a live theatre • Analyze the play you view in terms of how the ideas in the script and those used in the staging of the play were influenced by the society in which it was written and produced • Write a review paper based on your analysis • You are to include your personal responses of the viewed production • Your review should not exceed 5 pages. • Taken photographs that are relevant for the review may be included.

6. Assignment 2 Script Writing • Choose one of the texts prescribed for form four and form five students (literature component in English Language Syllabus) –Transform the narrative into a 20 minutes play production • Please adhere to script writing convention • Avoid from using narrator • Make sure the characters have equal time for speaking lines

7. Production 1 (15 percent) • Monologue (within 5 minutes) • Evaluation is during 2F2F • Please submit hardcopy of the script and diary of your preparation on the performance day. Email me the soft copy 1 week before the performance date. Failure to do so will result in points being deducted. 1 point for 1 day late. • 1 week after your performance submit response/reaction paper (both hard copy and soft copy). Email the soft copy. Similar terms on late assignment are applicable. • Recommendations: please use costume, personal props and stage props.

8. Production 2 (25 percent) • Group drama • If you are alone, get help from 1 person for dialogue. That person could be someone who is not taking the course – could be your colleague or spouse. • This production is for 15-30 minutes depending on the number of people you have in your group. • Please submit your script and also a journal of your journey in producing the group production. Submit soft copy 1 week before the performance date to my email address. • Final entry of journal should include item on the usefulness of this activity in teaching/learning environment. Submit the hard copy and email me the soft copy 1 week after the dater of performance.

9. Information gained (Elements in theatre work) • Words • Sentences • Sound effects • Background music • Facial expressions • Gestures • Movement across the stage • Lighting • Groupings • Shadows • Shapes and colours in the costume and decor

10. Involvement of audience • Appearance • Voice • Personality of the actors • The physical presence of actors

11. Theatre • an art form that is concerned with the representation of people in time and space, their actions and consequences of their actions. • is symbolic representation of experience. • seeks to uncover meaning. • strives to help us make sense of experience.

12. Functions • the various functions of drama/theatre; for example, as entertainment, social commentary, celebration, education, propaganda,

13. Skills for Performance to work • make connections among their own experience, their imagination and the dramatic situation • accept and sustain belief in the drama • make connections among their own experience, their imagination and the roles they assume • develop the ability to sustain belief in their own role(s) and in the role(s) assumed by others

14. recognize the importance of belief to making the drama work • demonstrate purposeful use of language when speaking and writing in role • begin to reflect on how the roles they assume function within the work • demonstrate confidence and curiosity by purposefully assuming different kinds of roles in their drama work.

15. Drama Process • initiate ideas which contribute to the topic choice, focus and the progress of their drama work • demonstrate a willingness to participate in negotiation in groupings of various sizes • begin to contribute to the problem-solving, consensus-building and decision-making inherent in drama work

16. demonstrate a willingness to accept the ideas of others • demonstrate a willingness to accept decisions reached by consensus • begin to recognize that co-operative effort is an essential ingredient in realizing satisfaction in drama work • begin to recognize that drama combines many individual ideas and contributions to form a whole artistic expression.

17. Skills acquired • demonstrate the ability to suspend judgment when viewing works of dramatic art • begin to examine how plays are made • begin to examine the responsibilities and contributions of various dramatic artists to the production of a play • recognize that dramatic artists create for a variety of reasons • begin to recognize the elements of theatre form in plays they view

18. examine plays in the context in which they are created • begin to perceive, describe, analyse and make judgments about works of dramatic art, using increasingly appropriate vocabulary • support opinions and interpretations of plays they view based on the evidence in the work • demonstrate an appreciation for diversity of ideas and respect for opinions that differ from their own • recognize that cultural background and experiences affect one's responses to the play and understanding of meaning and symbol in the work.

19. All the Best