The Phenomenon of Theatrical Reading and its Methodological Potential in the Study of Literature at School: Results of Theoretical and Empirical Research
Author(s):
Matvey V. Zverkov, Postgraduate student of the Department of Methods of Teaching Literature, https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5714-0950, Institute of Philology, Moscow State Pedagogical University
1 Malaya Pirogovskaya St, bldg 1, Moscow, 119435, Russia, tel: +7 (499) 2465712
Teacher of literature and history at school № 1101, Moscow
11 Akademika Vinogradova St, Moscow, 117133, Russia, tel: +7 (495) 1236659, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract: Introduction. The article is devoted to an urgent problem – the problem of finding new approaches to teaching literature in high school, which is designed to increase students’ motivation to read literary works and contribute to a deeper understanding of literary texts. The results presented in the article were obtained in the framework of theoretical and empirical research conducted in the course of work on the dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences on the topic “Methodological potential of theatrical reading in the study of literature in high school”.
Materials and Methods. The methodological basis of the research was the works of theater critics, art historians, philologists (V.N. Vsevolodsky-Gerngross, M. Aronson, S. Reiser, M.I. Sizova, M.A. Chernyak, etc.), the works of theater figures (K.S. Stanislavsky, M.A. Chekhov, M.O. Knebel, etc.), as well as the works of methodologists-wordsworkers on the organization of reading literary works (V.V. Golubkov), the history and theory of expressive reading techniques (V.V. Golubkov, R.R. Maiman, B.S. Naydenov, etc.), the application of certain elements of the K.S. Stanislavski system in the school literature course (V.V. Golubkov, N.A. Demidova et al.), the connections of literature and theater lessons (T.S. Zepalova, M.G. Kachurin, V.G. Marantsman et al.). The author uses theoretical (analysis, synthesis) and empirical (ascertaining experiment) research methods. A questionnaire has been developed for teachers of literature.
Results. The theoretical analysis of scientific literature made it possible, on the one hand, to determine the uniqueness of theatrical reading as a special way of text representation, on the other hand, to establish the lack of elaboration in modern methods of teaching literature on the use of theatrical reading in the school literature course, despite its undoubted methodological potential (a resource for introducing reading, a method for analyzing a literary work; a way of interpretation). The data obtained in the course of empirical research indicate the interest of teachers of literature in theatrical reading and their willingness to use it when studying literature. However, not all teachers have an idea of the specifics of this theatrical genre and the ways it can be integrated into the educational process.
Discussion and Сonclusion. Based on the results obtained in the course of theoretical and empirical research, we have developed a methodological model for using theatrical readings in the study of literature in high school, which is currently being tested as part of a training experiment, the preliminary results of which were presented by the author at the scientific conferences: XXXIII Golubkov Readings (March 20, 2025, Moscow, Moscow Pedagogical State University), V International Scientific and Practical Conference “Reading and Literary Education in the Digital Age” (November 23, 2024, Moscow, Moscow Pedagogical State University).
Keywords: methods of teaching literature, theatrical reading, theatricalization, dramatization, expressive role-reading, teacher-wordsmith, high school student-reader, high school student-spectator
For citation: Zverkov M.V. The Phenomenon of Theatrical Reading and its Methodological Potential in the Study of Literature at School: Results of Theoretical and Empirical Research. Pedagogicheskiy IMIDZH = Pedagogical IMAGE. 2025; 19 (2). Pp. 177-191. (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-2-177-191
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2025-19-2-177-191
UDС: 72.882:792.09
The article was submitted to the editorial office on 16.04.2025, approved after review on 15.05.2025, and accepted for publication on 20.05.2025.