You might want to check out my article in the Journal of Educational and
Child Psychology (2000, Vol 17, 3) entitled Performative Psychology: An
Untapped Resource for Educators." Among the projects discussed is one of an
ESL high school class.
Lois
In a message dated 11/19/02 4:35:33 AM, phil_chappell@access.inet.co.th
writes:
<< Phillip,
Thanks for those thoughts. I have just begun reading the small amount of
literature on play in the second language classroom, and concur entirely
with what you say...I was being a little harsh on the activity by calling
it inauthentic (a pretty controversial term in foreign/second language
education). My dilemma was finding a point of departure for using Activity
Theory (as a newcomer to applying it to my own classroom-based research).
Extending Vygotsky's view of child play as activity that creates a zone of
proximal development in which the child behaves beyond his/her day-to-day
capabilities and boundaries to adult play/theatre in the language learning
classroom is certainly an area worth exploring.
I'll look into Keith Sawyer's work. >>
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