REVISITING PUPPETS TO TEACH ENGLISH TO CHILDREN: MODEL ACTIVITIES TO FOSTER CLASSROOM ORAL INTERACTION USING PUPPETS
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Puppetry, as an educational resource, has been used for years to create a dynamic and interactive learning environment that encourages creativity, active oral participation and language fluency development. In a world where the use of technological tools, digital materials, apps and virtual classrooms have changed the dimension of education, making classes more dynamic and obliquus, puppets are still valuable in the class, as multiple research works have shown. For that reason, we revisited the use of puppets as a pedagogical tool in the English classroom, specifically to foster oral interactions in the English classes of a group of pre-schooling students. In that group, we observed that even though the teacher used multiple resources and activities (such as games, songs, act outs and more), some students did not participate in the oral interaction activities. We decided to design a set of activities mediated by impersonated puppets to foster oral interaction in the class. In this work, we presented the steps for designing those activities and a theoretical foundation for that design. The findings of its application are a matter of further research.
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