A
total of fifty six junior high schools participated in the Readers Theater
Competition in Taichung
Dadun Cultural
Center of the year 2012, featuring
wonderful and outstanding performances by dedicated contestants and their
coaches. Some high-ranking officials, legislators and principles came and
graced this main event, also with the vice mayor addressing to the audience. He
encouraged all the students to keep working on their reading and speaking
competence and expressed his best wishes that each team could have a wonderful
learning experience.
The
main idea of Readers Theater, or RT, is to use readers’ voices, mainly pronunciation
and intonation, to perform a written story when they become the characters and
bring them to life. As an English teacher, RT can be very helpful in motivating
students to read and speak because it creates a purpose for reading which later
on will leads to fluency. Unlike dramas, contestants are not allowed to use
large props, and there is also no need to put on makeup or gaudy costumes. Oral
interpretation plays the most crucial part and accounts for most of the judges’
evaluation.
Therefore,
based on the judges' feedback and suggestions, teachers are advised to aim their
coaching specifically at a character’s emotions rather than just reading out
loud his or her lines correctly. Then, try to avoid some common
mispronunciations, such as “can” and “can’t”, “beat” and “bit” and so on.
Following that, the judges also suggested trying to make the scripts related to
students’ real life as much as possible, like bullying, peer pressure,
homework, etc, and avoid using fairy tales instead. Finally, good singing can
add some color to your performance while lousy singing could just does the
opposite.
Many thanks
to those unsung heroes who made this competition possible. Also, on behalf of
the Advisory Group, I would like to congratulate those who put up such a
wonderful performance on their remarkable achievement. Last but not least, let’s
not forget the majority of students who didn’t participate in this competition today
can also benefit a lot from RT in terms of reading comprehension and fluency
other than those chosen elites. It is our job that we put RT into practice back
in real classrooms and engage more students in it.
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