DOES USING DRAMA IN EFL CLASSES MEET THE NEEDS OF THE LEARNERS?

Abstract

ABSTRACT

In recent years the language learner has been seen as an active learner who has a

unique learning profile with different individual strengths and skills. One reflection of

this understanding can be seen in Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory. According

to Gardner, who is an educational psychologist at Harvard University, intelligence is

not just one form of cognition but a multi-faceted aspect of thinking. As one of the

most attractive theories used in the educational field for the last three decades,

multiple intelligences theory comprises of eight intelligences which are the linguistic,

logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal

and naturalist intelligences. Meeting the learners' needs emerging from the above

mentioned family of intelligences is one of the main objectives of today's education.

This study aims at analyzing whether the use of drama in language teaching can help

nurturing eight intelligences of the students and meet their needs.

Keywords: Drama, multiple intelligences theory, learner needs

ÖZET

Son yıllarda öğrenci, bireysel özellikleri ve becerileriyle kendine özgü öğrenme

profili olan aktif öğrenen birey olarak kabul edilmektedir. Howard Gardner'ın bilim

dünyasına kazandırdığı Çoklu Zeka Kuramı, bu anlayışın bir yansımasıdır. Harvard

Üniversitesinde eğitim psikologu olan Gardner'a göre zeka bilişin bir türü olmaktan

çok düşünmenin çok katmanlı bir boyutudur. Son otuz yıldır eğitim alanında en sık

kullanılan kuramlardan birisi olan çoklu zeka kuramı dilsel, mantıksal-matematiksel,

görsel (uzamsal), müziksel, kinestetik, kişilerarası, içsel ve doğa zekalarından

oluşmaktadır. Günümüz eğitim anlayışının temel amaçlarından birisi öğrencilerin

yukarıda geçen zeka alanlarından doğan gereksinimlerinin karşılanmasıdır. Bu

bağlamda çalışmada yabancı dil derslerinde drama kullanımının sekiz zeka türünün

beslenmesinde ve öğrenci gereksinimlerinin karşılanmasında katkı sağlayıp

sağlayamayacağı incelenecektir.

Anahtar Sözcükler: Drama, çoklu zeka kuramı, öğrenci gereksinimleri

Keywords

• Drama, çoklu zeka kuramı, öğrenci gereksinimleri

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