DEVELOPING FUTURE ENGLISH TEACHERS’ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE VIA DRAMATISATION
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25128/2415-3605.17.4.7Keywords:
emotional intelligence, emotional competency, future English teachers, dramatisation, drama projectAbstract
The first part of this paper looks at how emotional intelligence EI is explored in writings in the fields of psychology, business management and language teaching methodology. It examines the structure of EI, factors influencing students’ emotional awareness and investigates the ways of developing this intelligence and competency at the university setting. A hypothesis is made about the possibility of future foreign language teachers’ emotional intelligence development by means of interactive methods and techniques, namely dramatisation. The second part of the paper looks at how EI can be developed by means of dramatisation both in English language classes and during independent work of students on drama projects. Feedback sessions after drama projects are effective in that they encourage learners to talk about themselves and their feelings while making the use of the foreign language relevant, interesting and therefore memorable.The aim of the research is to determine the level of future English teachers’ emotional intelligence using EI self-assessment before a drama project and after its completion. The results show that dramatisation activities in class and drama projects in particular develop future English teachers’ emotional intelligence.
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