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Reflection Nur Atikah Binti Zolkifli

1) The document summarizes the student's experience in a course on plays and dramas for children, taught by Dr. Quah Seok Hoon. 2) As part of the course, the student adapted a script called "An Apple Pie" into a new script called "The Durian Crepe" to be culturally appropriate for Malaysian children. 3) After selecting a script called "The Tale of Rabbit and His Tail", the student and their group prepared costumes, props, and settings for their performance, drawing inspiration from a professional children's play they saw called "The Snail and The Whale".

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Reflection Nur Atikah Binti Zolkifli

1) The document summarizes the student's experience in a course on plays and dramas for children, taught by Dr. Quah Seok Hoon. 2) As part of the course, the student adapted a script called "An Apple Pie" into a new script called "The Durian Crepe" to be culturally appropriate for Malaysian children. 3) After selecting a script called "The Tale of Rabbit and His Tail", the student and their group prepared costumes, props, and settings for their performance, drawing inspiration from a professional children's play they saw called "The Snail and The Whale".

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Reflection

Nur Atikah Binti Zolkifli


First and foremost I would like to praise God for his blessing in granting me
the chance to complete this entire course. It has been a privilege to study under Dr.
Quah Seok Hoon for her experience and expertise on the subject is unquestionable.
I have had the chance to gain new knowledge and undergo new experiences. Under
her wing, I am now a step closer to becoming a highly knowledgeable teacher with
the skills of a childrens performer in my heart.
Throughout the whole course I am introduced to the arts of plays and dramas
for children which honestly are something more complex than I had anticipated.
Performing the play is one thing and preparing the play is something completely
different. If one thing is clear to me after undergoing this course is that producing a
play which is suitable for children is no childs play. There are many factors that must
be taken into account. A childrens play is simple, interactive, fun and meaningful.
Being a future teacher, these are the goals that I must strive to achieve when
teaching plays and dramas to my students.
Doing the coursework for this paper, there were many stages in which we had
to undergo. First was script writing or adapting where we had to either come out with
our own original play script or adapt an available script so that it will suit our
performance later. I decided to adapt a script; a play entitled An Apple Pie which
after I adapted it became The Durian Crepe. However, the adapting process was
not merely changing the title of the play; I had to also adapt the play which revolves
around a western culture to suit our Malaysian Culture. Not only that, I had to
compress the whole storyline to make sure that it was not long. The language level
had to be adapted too. The original script uses a higher level English which in my
opinion was not suitable for the usage of children.
After finishing this, we were grouped into three different groups. I was
grouped with Nurilani, Aizil Hasyimi, Nur Amira, Intan fazyana, Hanisah, Nor Hani
and Hamirul Haizad. Then, the eight of us had to present our scripts and select the
most suitable play to be used for our stage performance. It was quite a painstaking
process as all of our scripts had their own merits and weaknesses. It was difficult for

us to make a decision. After much deliberation, we agreed on using Aizils play script
which was entitled The Tale of Rabbit and His Tail. It was by far the most suitable
script for the type of performance that we were planning to do. It was simple, easy to
understand and was appealing to the childrens interest.
Then came the phase we had to prepare our production. However, before we
even started planning, our beloved lecturer, Dr. Quah had planned a little trip which
eventually helped us in the planning of our stage performance. It was a trip to
Penang Performing Arts Centre (PENANGPAC). It was a trip to remember indeed.
We had the chance to watch a professional childrens play from the UK. It was a play
called The Snail and The Whale which for me was certainly an eye opener. I was
able to witness what a childrens play was all about. It was colourful, fun, interactive
and many more. I had all the characteristics which were very much appealing to the
children (and the adults too I might add). I enjoyed it very much. It impacted our
planning substantially.
After we had seen the play, our understanding of what our performance
should be like was much better. We started our production by adapting the script so
that it would suit the number of our group members. We add a few thing her and
there to make it more enjoyable. On the major additions was our interactive part with
the children. This we obtain from the play that we had seen. After we had completed
the script, we moved on to the settings, props and our costumes. We made all of
them by hand as it saves cost. The whole process of preparing for the performance
was fun and had developed a good team spirit in the process.
When the big day arrived, we were all very nervous but we believed in
ourselves and in each other. We had had enough practice and we were confident of
our performance. The play went great. We enjoyed ourselves. However, I personally
feel that I could have done a better job. I wish I had been more expressive in saying
my lines and more animated in my movements. The response from the audience
was not that great also as they very young children and did not really know how to
react to our performance but we tried our best to bring them into the play.

The whole process had been a wonderful experience for me. I would certainly
do it again. I believe that using plays and dramas in teaching is a great way to teach
the language. It helps children to use the language in a friendly environment.
Children would be thrill to be in the story rather than just listening to it. Plus, the
teacher would also enjoy teaching the children using plays as gives us room to be
someone other than the teacher and to bond with the students.

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