'This made me feel honoured': a participatory action research on using process drama in English language education with ethics of care
Özet
This study investigates English as a foreign language learners’
emotions and questions the authenticity of the communication in
language classrooms in Turkey. To become more aware of
learners’ emotions and to make a speaking module more
engaging, the teacher-researcher decided to utilise process drama
as a participatory action research intervention. The data were
collected over a three-week process drama. Drawing on ‘ethics of
care’ and ‘social and emotional learning’, the findings
demonstrated that authentic communication empowered learners
when the content was relevant to their emotion labour. When
learners’ emotions are scrutinised explicitly through drama-ineducation, they feel respected and more engaged.
