INSTITUT PERGURUAN KAMPUS TEMENGGONG IBRAHIM

JOHOR BAHRU

TEACHING LANGUAGE ARTS IN THE PRIMARY ESL CLASSROOM

LGA 3033E

NAME

: NOR ATIKA BINTI BARDANI

930507-01-5086

GROUP

: 5 PISMP TESL (SK) 2

SUBJECT

: LANGUAGE ARTS

CODE

: LGA 3033E

TITLE

: WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT

LECTURERS NAME

: PN AZIZAH ABD AZIZ

SUBMISSION DATE

: 10 SEPTEMBER 2014

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"I hereby declare this thesis is my own work except for excerpts and a
summary of each of them I have to explain its source."

Signature

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Students name : NOR ATIKA BINTI BARDANI

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Select a story that is suitable for dramatization with Year 4, 5 and 6

pupils. Justify your selection.

Working in groups, prepare a script based on the story selected
suitable for use with your target group.

LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT OF
INSTITUT PERGURUAN KAMPUS TEMENGGONG IBRAHIM JOHOR BAHR

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APPRECIATION

I am using this opportunity to express my gratitude to the most

beloved lecturer, Madam Azizah who supported us throughout the course. I
am thankful for her aspiring guidance, invaluably constructive criticism and
friendly advice during the course.
Not more than that, I also want express my warm thanks to parents for
their support and guidance throughout the process of finishing the task.
Thanks to them for sharing their truthful advice and support throughout my
journey in fighting sickness of all the assignments given.
I would also like to thank my respected friends for their external guided
and sharing ideas .The muscle pain and constantly feeling fatigue is the
enemys battalion to push us to the edge of my downfall. But they are
besides to push me up to continue my work. They are friend that i would
fight for.

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Tittle

Acknowledgement

Tittle of assignment

Appreciation

Written essay justification about story entitled The Lion and the
Mouse

5
6
Overview

Script ( scene 3 and 4 )

References

Drama is an aesthetic discipline which possesses its own body of knowledge,

namely, the art of the theatre, at the center of which lies active communication,
(Heikkinen, 2004). One of the ways to teach language is through drama because it
provides opportunity for multi-sensory and multiple intelligent to foster students
development in learning English language. I choose the book entitled The Lion and
the Mouse
The most vital reason for choosing this books is through elements of story
which is it contains numerous characters such as the lion, mouse, elephant, rhino
and ostrich. Characters are an important element in drama because they drive the
story as a whole, (Johnson, 2008). As it contains many characters, it will give
opportunity students to socialize with peers as they have to take parts in the
dramatization. Normally, the limitation of characters in the book leads half of the
students in the classroom excused from the play and ultimately will limit their
chance to portray the characters in imaginary situations. Besides that, through the
usage of more characters, it provides a context to practice listening and speaking
and it makes language practice more meaningful than mechanical drills (Chauhan,
2004). The supportive characters such as the rhino, elephant and ostrich give more
students chance to grab the experience to practice listening and speaking skills as
they have to memorize the script and voice it followed with the turn talking. As the
language used in the story is appropriate for their level and have several repetition
words, it helps them to understand better and build their self-esteem to learn more
So, basically to me, the most important element of drama is looking at the number
of the characters and language appropriateness so that it will involve the whole
class in dramatize the story.
Moral values can offer a valuable way of contextualizing, offer decision
making, and assess implications of their decisions (Wasik & Bond, 2001).

The

message conveyed is clear and straightforward that suit with students age and
development, which is in life, never dismisses an offer or help no matter how small
it may seem. In this story, the lion is a king of the jungle, all the animals are really
scared of him. Afraid of being eaten by him, all the animals never dare to come near
him except for two little mice. When the lion wants to eat the little mouse, they
begging him to release them and offer him a help when needed. At the end, the two
little mice help him when he steps on the trap. The moral value can help students to

relate it with the real life situation especially in school between their peers. They
can practice the moral value in the classroom such as helping each other and
uphold the promises.
Activities are one of the efficient ways to make students communicate and
sociable (Putus, 2002). Ting (2005) found that children enjoy learning language
through drama activities. This book can be used as sources to manipulate many
activities as the plot is fascinating and the characters used are very interesting.
Through the plot of the story, the activities that can be done are grouping the
students in groups and ask them to perform new ending for the story and role the
play in front of peers. By doing this, it can challenge their vocabulary to write
sentences and creativity to imagine what will happen next. The next activity that
suitable for language art is produce masks of all the characters that involved in the
story. By doing this, it helps to strengthen the motor development by cutting and
coloring the masks.

In addition, they are able to know the characteristic of the

animals such as lion, mouse, elephant, rhino and ostrich by searching the sources to
draw the masks that resemble the animals. And the most important part is they can
use the masks while dramatize the story in front so that they can distinguish each
of the character. So, in conclusion, this story book is very appropriate in generating
further learning standard as we can manipulate it to produce many suitable
activities that suitable with their level.
In the nutshell, to teach drama, the process of selecting the book is very
crucial because it will reflect the result of students achievement.
obligatory to choose the best books in order to meet students need.

It is teacher

References
Putus, M. 2008. Creating opportunities for interaction in the English classroom
through
drama. Licentiate thesis. Department of Languages. University of Jyvskyl.
Heikkinen, H. 2004. Drama in Primary English Teaching.
Rahim, H., & Denia, M. (2011). The Use of Stories as Moral Education for Young
Children.International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 2(6). Retrieved
September 6, 2014, from http://www.ijssh.org/papers/145-A10057.pdf
Wasik, B.A. & Bond, M.A. (2001). Beyond the pages of a book: Interactive reading
and language development in preschool classrooms. Journal of Educational
Psychology 93, pp. 243-250.