Journal of English Language Teaching

Teaching outside the Teaching Machine: Analyzing and Adopting Geoffrey Kendal’s Approach towards English Plays

Pinak Sankar Bhattacharya

Asst. Professor, Department of English, GLA University, Mathura

Ravi Prakash Dubey

Asst. Professor, Department of English, GLA University, Mathura

Keywords: Theatre in ELT, Geoffrey Kendal’s Approach

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Abstract

English Language Teaching is younger than the desire to learn English in Indians. Many methods of English language teaching have been developed in less than a century. This paper is written based on an experiment done at the GLA University Mathura to teach English language to select students of B.Tech. Second Year, Mechanical Engineering.

The paper is divided into two main parts. The first part deals with an approach developed by Geoffrey Kendal. This approach maintains that training in theatre can be a tool for teaching English. The second part reports, elaborates and analyses the experiment done to teach English to students with the help of the approach explained in part one.

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