Language activity involves physicality in everyday life, but not really in Japanese classrooms. In this report, Reading Theatre注1 that employs physical expressions is introduced and the effectiveness of the activity is examined focusing on process of understanding, self-evaluation and learning by analyzing students’ review sheets. The results show that the multiple resources and collaborative activity helped middle/advanced level students to understand the story, characters and various vocabulary of folktale texts, and to find the importance of using the language along with appropriate intonation, emotion and movement.
