German Literature and Culture under Revue: Learner Autonomy and Creativity through the Theme-Based Theater Practicum.

Autor/in	Koerner, Morgan
Titel	German Literature and Culture under Revue: Learner Autonomy and Creativity through the Theme-Based Theater Practicum.
Quelle	In: Die Unterrichtspraxis - teaching German, 45 (2012) 1, S. 28-39 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anhang
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1756-1221
DOI	10.1111/j.1756-1221.2012.00116.x
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Gesellschaft; Kreativität; Methodik; Deutsch als Fremdsprache; Gattung (Lit); Dramapädagogik; Theater
Abstract	This article proposes a theatrically oriented, thematically structured course model for the upper level undergraduate German curriculum. The traditional focus on staging a single play in the German foreign language theater practicum neglects theater's potential to explore other literary genres and cultural texts and runs the danger of becoming an overly teacher-centered endeavor. But a thematically organized theater practicum supplants the dramatic text as the sole unifying element and creates more space for students to determine the shape and content of the final performance. Based on experience with teaching three iterations of such a course, the author introduces strategies from drama pedagogy and creative writing that can be used to explore literary and cultural texts and simultaneously generate material for a final, cabaret-style production. Via specific examples, she considers how theater strategies can provide an engaging yet critical pathway into second-language literature and culture and make a case for further experimentation with theater as both a medium and a method in German literature and culture courses. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/2