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ELT Journal 1991 45(3):230-236; doi:10.1093/elt/45.3.230
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From improvisation to publication on an English through Drama course

Charlyn Wessels

EFL/ESL in the UK, Germany, and Africa. She has an MSc in Applied Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. Her major research interests are teaching through drama and the teaching of prounciation. She is author of Drama (Oxford Resource Books for Teachers series). She is a senior lecturer at Stevenson College, Edinburgh, and also the college's equal opportunities co-ordinator.

The creative work of students—essays, video productions, and tape recordings—can be a rich source of authentic materials for the EFL teacher who often has to worry about copyright restrictions on published texts. This article describes how plays can be improvised and written by students, and how the end-products can be modified in a variety of ways to create new teaching material. In one instance, a soap opera created in this way was rewritten by one group of students and their teacher as a class reader which is due to be published by Macmillan as part of their new ‘Bookshelf’ series of readers.


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