Elaine Browne.pdf - Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Prof Delport: And at your school?
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C: We do the drama. When you do a thing from the TV, they enjoy that, characters, whatever. They enjoy the
characters and the story. They do dramatize the story.
Prof Delport: Do you do that in the Arts and Culture period or do you do that in the language or other learning
areas?
C: …. They sometimes do it from listening to a story.
Prof Delport: So you say as because of the TV they know the terms?
C: They know the characters, the prompts and more ...
Prof Delport: Sissy (everybody spoke together, laughing)
D: We like to dramatize. They always like it.
Prof Delport: Do you do it in the Arts and Culture period?
D: We like to do it in the English period.
Prof Delport: OK, so you also do it in the English. So are you doing it during the English period?
D: Ja
B: But the problem that I get from those learners. Like the remark that the lady has made is that when they
read about something and then you ask them to do it, to act on that they would love to use their own language.
They don’t want to use the English language.
Prof Delport: Then what do you do? Do you allow them to use their own language?
B: Yes I even allow them, but it doen’t mean that I am going to assess on that.
Prof Delport: Now that you’re talking about assess, how do you experience the assessment of Arts and Culture?
Is it difficult, is it easy? Do you do it?
B: We do it.
A: Yes we do, yes we do. And sometimes when they do a project like, ah, like ... I group them. I assess them as
a group. We do group assessment a lot. But individual assessment, I don’t think is quite easy.
Prof Delport: And how do the learners perform? Do they get good marks or bad marks in Art? Are you lenient
or are you strict? Is it easy to fail somebody in Arts and Culture?
B: No it is not easy. Even if you get some shyness from them, but they do their best just to get those marks.