Drama As A Means Of Improving The Advocacy Skills Of Non-English-Speaking-Background Students
Drama as a Means of Improving the Advocacy Skills of Non-English-Speaking-Background Students
Chamkaur Gill
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Bond University, Australia
cgill@staff.bond.edu.au
This paper will discuss the problems facing overseas-Asian students who study law in Western universities and will deal with how drama can help improve their English-language oral-communication skills. A profile of the average student belonging to a high-context, relational culture will be provided with the aim of showing why such a student needs full-on immersion in oral English. An attempt will be made to suggest that the activities and materials employed by instructors using such a strategy can help lower students?affective barriers and increase their confidence, motivation and spontaneity when speaking, while improving their non-verbal skills. The writer's personal experiences will be mentioned in passing.
Keywords: Drama, communication skills, advocacy skills, speaking......
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Approximate Word Count: 3263
Approximate Pages: 14 (250 words per double-spaced page)
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