Harnessing Dramatic Creativity: A Lesson Study on Enhancing Creativity in a Digital Puppetry Project
Abstract
To manipulate digitally animated figures, objects, text, audio files, and music in a virtual setting is known as digital puppetry. It is frequently utilised in movies and TV shows, but it has also been employed in education, such in language teaching. The purpose of this study was to investigate the instructional approaches used to teach TESL pre-service teachers enrolled in the "Drama in Action" course to foster dramatic creativity. Pre-service teachers and the researchers worked together to observe and evaluate the teaching and learning processes. Participants wrote and edited drama scripts, made storyboards, chose pictures for the characters and backgrounds, recorded voiceovers, and selected appropriate music to set the tone and mood of the narrative. The findings showed that the pre-service teachers created artistic and compelling digital puppet shows, and with more guidance could have upgraded their digital process, English language accuracy, and pronunciation for better results. With the help of this lesson study, digital puppetry will become an effective teaching tool in ESL classrooms by enhancing the teaching strategies used in the “Drama in Action” course.
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