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English through Drama:Teaching Literature through English

Genreral English programs in colleges have been forced to be a Practical English classes on demand: "demand" for future careers in academic or business field, or for improving test taking skills in TOEIC, TOEFL or TEPS. General English, however, shoud bel an important part in liberal education in colleges, adn as such, it should contribute to build the students' liberal imagination and creativity."English through Drama" classes can be stimulating to students'creativity while meeting the practical need. Even though drama techniques have long been favorite in EFL classrooms, they are mainly regarded as effective skills to facilitate students's language acquisition. Teaching "English through Drama" as and advanced English class in CEP (College English Program at SNU) showed me a way to overcome the binary opposition between languase/literature learning. In the class students should analyse contemporary 10- minute plays on their own terms and "physicalize" their reading. They also gladly paricipate in writing their own 5-minute play and presend the show in front of peer aduiednce as a final project. Drama techniques have been used as important tools in EFL classrooms, best fit for communicative approach, but they are used the other way round; through "English through drama" classes, drama could be used for enhancing students analytic performance, thus illustraiting an useful option for incorporating the practical curriculum into a cooperative and performative, and humanistic one.