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Love was the only word everyone knew: Investigating the effect of drama for vocabulary acquisition using the Involvement Load Hypothesis as a framework
Mid Sweden University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.
2020 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (professional degree), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This research set out to investigate the effect of drama used for English L2 education or more accurately, vocabulary acquisition. The study found that a communication-based approach to education, such as drama, is important to study and promote as it continues the development of the CLT approach to education. The study also found that drama can benefit L2 education and that drama boosts pupil’s involvement which is one of the key ingredients to successful vocabulary acquisition. Furthermore, the study found that when the ILH is applied to L2 tasks it can increase involvement in those tasks. The results of the study showed that drama achieved the same results as a similar communication-based approach. Nevertheless, with such a small sample of test and31subjects, this research can at best be seen as a pilot study. The study successfully identified the areas of which future longitudinal research should include and focus on to achieve a sufficient measurement of the effect of drama as a means for effective vocabulary acquisition in English as second language education.

The present research has demonstrated the possibilities of drama used in English education. Well-planned, incidental word tasks which use drama seem like a recipe that combines the meaningful context, authentic situations and involvement which research on effective L2 English learning and vocabulary acquisition promotes.

In the search for useful L2 vocabulary acquisition methods, it is evident that much ground has been covered and that researchers have come a long way. However, perhaps one possibility to explore is to go back to the simplistic primal play of acting. Acting, or dramatization, allows us to engage, manufacture meaningful situations, communicate with others, and by going out of ourselves in acting we can dare to fail, and by doing so see that failure is an acceptable, necessary part of learning.

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2020. , p. 37
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Languages and Literature
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URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-43793OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-43793DiVA, id: diva2:1612877
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English EN1
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Primary School teacher education programme 4-6 ULGMG 240 higher education credits
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Godkänt datum 2020-01-19

Available from: 2021-11-19 Created: 2021-11-19

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