DLT Podcast 12: Modesto Corderi Novoa
In this episode I talk to Modesto Corderi Novoa, a teacher of Chinese, Spanish and English who lives in Northern Spain and has a long-standing interested in applying improv in his language classroom.
We talk about:
- Modesto’s journey to become the kind of language teacher and teacher trainer he is today
- his PhD research on the influence of drama-based teaching on students oral proficiency in the Chinese as a foreign language teaching classroom
- how he applies games from improvisational theatre, drama conventions and other elements in his performative classroom
- his advice to teachers who want to become more creative in designing their lessons with drama-based elements
Links
Articles on Modesto’s research and performative practice:
- The Impact of Performative Language Teaching on Oral Skills in the Classroom of Chinese as a Foreign Language: https://revpubli.unileon.es/index.php/sinologia/article/view/7381
- Performing El Camino (The Way) of Santiago de Compostela. An embodied performative language teaching practice (you can also find a description of the “loop” game in this article): https://journals.ucc.ie/index.php/scenario/article/view/scenario-17-1-8/pdf-en
- Performing Yuánfèn: An Exploration of Untranslatable Words in the Lacunae Project: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/13/1/2
Other Games mentioned in the podcast:
- https://improwiki.com/en/wiki/improv/i_am_a_tree
- https://improvencyclopedia.org/games//Gibberish_Expert.html