Are skits really that helpful with learning a language? I don't believe so. I would think teachers ask us to perform the skit so we can hear the phrases "in a real-life setting" but is it really that when the lines are memorized and butchered? Can't we just read the dialogues and examples given in the book to see how the phrases are used in real-life? A teacher might object that we aren't then practicing speaking and to that I ask couldn't we just read the dialogues out loud? A teacher might then say the entire point of skits is to practice the phrases with memorization. My argument is wouldn't being asked on the spot to respond to a question and forced to think be more beneficial than memorization?
So are skits really that helpful with learning a language?
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