A research team at Brock University has found that using drama and theatre techniques can dramatically improce students fluency and smprehension skills in English. The study followed a group of 24 teens over four months in an English language program in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The students who learned through the traditional communicative classroom did not improve as much as the students who learned through drama.
Interestingly, one of the authors commented, “Some have argued that there’s a connection between success in second language learning and your ability to see yourself as someone else.”