Pembelajaran Seni Bahasa dalam Konteks Lintas Kurikulum melalui Drama

Abstract

Everyone is entitled to draw on the arts elements to create and give meanings, to express themselves, to communicate and share the meanings with other people, and to understand the world around them. Activities related to arts belong to every human being, and anything refl ected in arts is about human being. In the context of cross-curriculum, arts can be creatively woven into other subject areas, or is linked with a wide variety of subjects in the educational program. As one of the school subject, language arts is the vehicle of communication by which we live, work, share, and build ideas and understandings of the present, refl ect on the past, and imagine the future. Language arts incorporates the integrated teaching and learning of oral, written, and visual texts through reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing. The paper highlights drama as an alternative of arts activity integrated in a cross-curricular language arts program.