My research concentrates on drama-based (performative) methods of teaching and learning in critical intercultural and transformative language education. I began this research in the fall of 2018 in my Research Methods course at Arizona State University where I conducted a meta-study survey of work from within the last fifteen years in the field of language teaching and learning incorporating performative methods in the classroom. For my final applied project as part of my Master’s thesis, I continued on similar line of inquiry, narrowing my focus to how critical intercultural language pedagogy informs drama-based teaching methods, in particular when working with language-minoritized students. In the fall of 2020 to the spring of 2021, I completed a qualitative research study where I designed and facilitated a virtual drama-based residency at two schools in Phoenix, Arizona with emergent bilingual students in the sixth to eighth grades. As I continue forward, I am interested in arts-based and participatory research methodologies in language education research, and performative and translanguaging pedagogies in transformative teaching practice.
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Jenna Nilson 