THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASS AS A MEANS FOR ENCOUNTER
PRESENTERS: ROBERT ZAMMIT – LARA VINCENT
Sociodrama and power
DATE AND TIME: 29th of June, Saturday 10:00-12:30
CONFERENCE TOPIC: Sociodrama and more – Widening the scope of sociodrama: related fields, methodological exploration
TYPE: Workshop
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NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS: 20
TAGS: Sociodrama and More, June29 Morning
ABSTRACT:
In this workshop, we’ll demonstrate how sociodrama can be used in a foreign language class context.
Participants in a language class are human beings and have to be considered and approached as such.
Our method Psychodramaturgy for Language Acquisition (PDL) is based principally on Morenos conceptions of development and well-being. The concept of the creative circle is key.
“Spontaneity can be trained”, said Moreno. And this is what we do.
PDL is a pedagogical method based on the encounter, on being in the here-and-now. Participants do not study language; they use it as a means for encounter. It is about being, doing and living in the foreign language. The trainer provides the framework and the safe place, and assists the participants in their need to express themselves.
In this workshop, participants will experience language acquisition with the PDL method; a pedagogy on its feet, with content based on the relevance to the participants and the group.
They will be able to apply sociodramatic role-creation and role-playing in a foreign language classroom.
They will be in a better position to reflect on how language is acquired and get practical tools to promote encounter in the foreign language classroom.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Robert (Malta) and Lara (France) have been teaching language as foreign language to adults for the last 20 years and also to children the last years. They are both certified PDL Trainers and psychodrama directors (DFP Germany). They have a language school, offering PDL courses in various languages and teacher training around Europe.
After attending international Sociodrama workshops, they realised they were not only using Psychodrama, but also Sociodrama in the foreign language classroom, without being aware of it.
Two papers on the relation between Psychodrama, Sociodrama and PDL will appear in the German journal, Zeitschrift für Psychodrama und Soziometrie, in 2024.
