DaTEAsia Themed Issue 2018: Drama and Languages- Call for submission
Issue Editors: Muriel Yuen-Fun LAW & Dora Lai-Wa PRATLEY
The Journal of Drama and Theatre Education in Asia (DaTEAsia), a peer-reviewed journal established in 2010, is now inviting submission to the Drama and Languages themed issue, to be coming out in June 2018.
Drama has been recognised as effective and empowering pedagogy for language learning, be that of the learners’ native language, second or additional language. Ongoing research has been conducted on the practices and implications of drama to language teaching and learning at various educational levels and contexts worldwide, often with the focus on drama education and second language learning. To date, the latest publications in those areas include a special themed issue ‘Drama and Second language learning’ (2011) published by Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance (RiDE hereafter), and a book edited by Joe Winston (2012) called Second Language Learning through Drama: Practical techniques and applications. As Stinson and Winston (2011) stated in the editorial in the special issue of RiDE, drama education and second language learning is a growing field of practice and research.
In 2016, almost half a decade later, the needs for understanding and examining the relations between drama and languages have come more urgent and imperative than ever before. Under the influence of globalisation, people living in Asia are standing on both edges of a razor -- embracing the cultural and economic influences while fighting to define or re-define the positionality of one’s identity, language and historicality as individuals and as collective selves. Struggles both in language, power and identity, and in the defense of democratic space in education of the disenfranchised prevail. These observations require sheer criticality and multi-perspectives so as to interrogate any phenomena or issues found in practices which concern both drama and language educators. In this regard, DaTEAsia is now calling for papers to a themed issue on Drama and Languages.
Our Drama and Languages themed issue aims to pull together manuscripts that concern any of the followings:
1. Practices on drama and languages in Asian contexts in response to the concerning socio-political and cultural situations;
2. Interdisciplinary research on examining and theorizing the use of drama in language teaching and learning;
3. Any other areas which concern drama and language teaching and learning.
DaTEAsia is an Asian based journal; nevertheless, we welcome submissions from non-Asian contexts which would also be considered with its potential relevance and insights to the practices and research in Asia. Each manuscript will be of a maximum length of 7,000 (English) or 10,000 (Chinese) words.
Please send your manuscript to journal@tefo.hk