UNIVERSIDAD PEGAGÓGICA EXPERIMENTAL LIBERTADOR
INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE MATURÍN
DEPARTAMENTO DE PEDAGOGÍA
PROGRAMA DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA

DRAMATIC READING: UNVEILING SUBTEXTUAL MEANINGS AND MAKING SENSE OF THE LIFE OF THE TEXTS


Teaching Literature is not an easy task. Current trends in literature encourage students and teachers to be highly interested in exploring and experiencing different strategies and up-dated techniques in this field. The problem of teaching English and its literature in the academic context leads us to constantly propose new challenges in order not only to fulfill the academic requirements, but also to stimulate in the students the sensations of pleasure as well as the gaining of knowledge in the reading of literary texts, particularly in our country where reading is definitely overpasses by other means of communication.

Therefore the Venezuelan teachers of English as foreign language must face and overcome the weakness in reading and writing most of our students unfortunately bring into the classroom. Based on this, the students of the course of Introduction to Literature (English Program) at IPM-UPEL decided to actively take part in the IV International Students Meeting on Literature and Culture of the English Speaking World and designed a public activity to expose their improvements in the meaningful reading of dramatic texts written by the most famous playwrights so far.

The activity consisted of the reading of some of the selected scenes ever written in theater and of making us get involved again in unforgettable moments as that when the brutal and drunk Stanley Kowalski hit his sweet and pregnant wife Stella or when the fragile and innocent Laura Wingfield is kissed for the first time by Jim O’Connor, “that emissary of the ordinary world”. The students try hard to put into practice all the theoretical knowledge providing the appropriate intonation, diction, and rhythm for the different speech acts.

The experience had a communicative-functional basis from which they got a better understanding of Literature and will be taken as a reference in our future classes.
Fortunately the goal was achieved successfully!


Prof. Pedro E. Aguilera Vásquez
Introduction to Literature
Groups: 1 and 2
July, 2008

THE FOLLOWING STUDENTS READ EXTRACTS FROM THESE DRAMATIC TEXTS


A Streetcar Named Desire
Author: Tennessee Williams.

Participants:

Lisandro Rosales
Milvia Gutierrez
Luis Cabello

Pigmalion
Author:George Bernard Shaw

Participants:
Nelson Cermeño
Gustavo Torres
Astrid Vegas

The Pearl and the Oyster
Author:William Saroyan

Participants:
Marlvyn García
Odra Chaparro
Ana Marcano

The Glass Menagerie
Author: Tennessee Williams

*Scene 6
Franyerlin Rosillo
Rosely Evariste
Jose Marcano
Mario Núñez
*Scene 7
Robert Orta
Eliana González

Mrs. Ripley´s Trip
Author: Hamlin Garland

Participants:
Jose Acosta
Ana del Moral
Reinaldo Cova
Danni Hilarraza

The Night of the Iguana
Author:Tennessee Williams

Participants:
Evelyn Bastardo
Kenny Taly
Loreán González

Sorry Wrong Number
Author: Allan Ullman & Lucille Fletcher

Participants:
Frehya Lunar
Maria Dominguez
Homero Molina

Enemies
Author:Neith Boyce & Hutchins Haogood

Participants:
Carmary Macuarán
Julio Cova


Suddenly Last Summer
Author:Tennessee Williams

Participants:
Melida Camino
Yurelkis Romero

A Gala Dress by Mary Wiins Freeman
Author

Participants:
Rosannie Lezama
Areannys Pacheco
Jeniffer Figueroa


The Window
Author: Saki:

Participants:
Karellys Mendez
Zorelys Rojas
Elimar Caraballo
* (An adaptation from the short story “The Open Window”)



The Long Stay Cut Short or The Unsatisfactory Supper
Author:Tennessee Williams

Participants:
Irene Noriega
Glebys Rondon
Faviola Galea

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