Reflection of the Play.

For the next class, our lecturer has asked us to get in pair and understand the dialogue of a play (Edward Bond Bingo) on page 28 in book entitled Now Read On by John McRae and Malachi Edwin Vethamani. After understanding the dialogue, our lecturer has asked us to act as the speaker of the dialogue with the partner in order to answer the next questions that arise, which we are going to answer later. For instance, who the characters are, where they are (the setting), how they speak and move in relation to each other (tone, proxemics), how they do what they do- and so on. What makes our class more fun is there is a few groups whom presenting the play in front of the class with different style of presentation. From the activity, we can see the play in different perspective since we have complete freedom to interpret the text- to build up a context, to create characters, and to make a performance. Moreover, before the performance, my lecturer does not explain about the setting or characters in order to make it clear by showing rather than telling. In my opinion, this kind of technique, which makes students become more active, has result the best outcome. This is because as I can see, every performance that my friends make is unique and very different from each other. Thus, we can see discuss all the questions that arise before by looking at their performances. For example, how many characters are there? Are they standing, sitting, walking, running, jogging…? In other words, the various performances will show differences in all aspects discussed, plus intonation and emphasis, pace and attitude. Therefore, I am happy to have this kind of activity since it opens my mind about the general perspective of the play besides avoid us from being passive during the class. It is due to this activity requires us to give a complete involvement during the lesson- student centered learning. As a result, it gives us an opportunity to learn autonomously and thinks creatively about our learning.