The Role of Drama in Language Teaching

Abstract

For many years, a small group of people in Universiti Sains Pulau Pinang and Universiti Malaya and more recently at Institut Teknologi MARA, have been agitating for greater recognition of drama as an essential part of education but so far little has been done to exploit the obvious advantages of drama as an instrument of language teaching in our schools. I hope however that very soon teacher training institutions will be able to include drama courses in their curricula not only as a pleasurable means of teaching language but also in increasing the creative potential of the young people in our country.