Theorising Participatory Drama as Literacy Education
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In today's world, compulsory education has been widely implemented in the vast majority of regions. The most fundamental and important educational goal of compulsory education is to cultivate individual literacy ability. Recent studies have shown that using drama as a teaching method can effectively promote the development of literacy learning. This paper analyzes why drama can develop literacy according to the definition of literacy and introduces the related drama strategies from four aspects of listening, speaking, reading and writing to explain how to use drama to enhance literacy ability, and concluded that thinking cognition should always be the core of literacy and cannot be separated.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i27.10440
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