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Sunday 8:40-9:30 AM
Cosmos A
Promoting intercultural awareness through creative fictional dramas 
Joseph S. Cravotta
Kyoto University, Japan
 

This workshop will examine the use of student-generated dramatic plays as a means of raising awareness of intercultural communication. One way to help learners become more aware of different cultures is to have them create, write, and perform fictional plays about cross cultural topics. This workshop will explore a series of activities which take pupils through a long-term, creative project of sharing aspects of various cultures with others. These activities utilize a four-skilled process of pre- writing tasks, multi-draft scripts, collaborative rehearsal with peers, self-direction, and finally performance in front of an audience. The purpose of this workshop is to provide educators with a framework which actively guides students through a collaborative, creative process while stimulating and increasing sensitivity to cross cultural similarities and differences. A non-teacher centered, student-fronted setting is the approach endorsed during this workshop.