THE CLOSURE

There were lots of thing that I have learned through out this course and I found that Teaching The Language of Drama had given me an opportunity to understand better in studying drama as well as local plays. I had discovered that everyone have their own true potential in writing the play creatively as seen our first assignment – writing a stageplay. It was a stepping stone for my course mates and I to actively involve in this kind of writing. This opportunity gave us a chance to vary our writing skills to be more sophisticated and stylish. Luckily, my script entitled “ Pigeon” had been applaused by most of our classmates and our tutor in terms of it’s intellectuality and authenticity. If other groups tend to write about love, broken marriage and unfinished love, our group had came up with zapin as our main subject of writing.


Besides that, I also had been introduced with micro-teaching. It was a long process where it requires us to well-planned our activities in terms of material selection and presentation style. I found that we should have the confidence and good acquisition in language in order to impress your students about your credibility. I totally agree that micro-teaching is not just based on your lesson plan but you must have the initial preparation and able to promote interaction in the classroom between teacher and students.

Throughout this course, I also got an opportunity to meet one of Malaysian well-acclaimed writer, Kee Thuan Chye. It was a memorable experience since I had studied his play, The Swordfish then The Concubine. From that meeting, we had to know his perspective about his writing and political scenario in this country. I also took a picture with him as a remembrance.

The most interesting part throughout this course was blogging. For the first time in life I owned my own blog. Prior to this, I never bothered about this thing, however, it became the requirement of this course for you to have your own blog side. At first, I thought this idea was just wasting my time, but, as the semester was going to the end, I finally see the benefit of it. Writing my own blog, reading my friend’s blog and commenting their posts were very interesting. I was free to share my opinion or express my feelings while doing that. It also became a space for my course mates and I to share views and knowledge about the course we took. It was a memorable experience and it answered my question why some people were addicted to blogging everyday. I found that this method was very interactive and appealed to the needs of teenagers out there which wanted a new presentation of teaching of learning process.

In brief, this course had taught me a lot. All the experiences and knowledge that I had collected throughout this course were useful to me. I will apply all of them in my classroom when I start teaching very soon. I also want to wish good luck to all my friends who will sit on the final examination tomorrow.