Drama-in-English: the significance of role

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This article explores how Dorothy Heathcote’s approach to role can inform learning in English. It is founded on a conception of drama and role-play that is closely aligned with Heathcote’s understanding of the possibilities of careful attention to sign and to the nuances of an assumption or suggestion of role that maybe realised in a variety of forms, appropriate to classroom constraints. It references a small- scale case study that drew on the stimulus of Heathcote’s role conventions to teach literary texts in English classrooms and considers the possibilities of media production in underlining the generative trajectory of the sign through live embodiment to recorded dramatic interaction.

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case study, drama conventions, media production, role, sign

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