Drama as a core in teaching Spanish as a foreign language at university of Lublin, Poland

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of the drama based program carried out at the Maria Curie Sklodowska University of Lublin (Poland) in the development of grammatical, lexical and intercultural competence and in communicative strategies of the first-year students of Spanish Philology. The embedded mixed method was used to analyze the variables. Results showed the improvement of lexical and intercultural competence and development of the communicative strategies among workshop participants. Analyzes did not show improvement in grammatical competence. In the study, didactic possibilities of the use of drama in the Spanish as a foreign language classroom were presented, as well as the future lines of research, such as the development of the interaction and mediation strategy.