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From http://www.ucc.ie/en/scenario/

Scenario is a bilingual (English–German), fully peer-reviewed online journal. The journal's main focus is on the role of drama and theatre in the teaching and learning of foreign / second languages, including the literatures and cultures associated with these languages.

Scenario is pleased to announce that its fifteenth issue (2014-1) has just gone online, featuring contributions from teaching and learning contexts in Australia, England, Germany, Italy, and Japan: http://research.ucc.ie/scenario/current.

Inma Alvarez (Open University, UK) and Ana Beaven (C.I.L.T.A. Language Center, University of Bologna, Italy): Non-formal Drama Training for In-Service Language Teachers.

Jonathan Sharp (University of Tübingen, Germany): Drama in ‘Sprachpraxis’ at a German University English Department: Practical Solutions to Pedagogical Challenges.

Eucharia Donnery (Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan): Process Drama in the Japanese University EFL Classroom: The Emigration Project.

Erika Piazzoli and Claire Kennedy (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia): Drama: Threat or Opportunity? Managing the ‘Dual Affect’ in Process Drama a research.

Alexander Riedmüller (Buenos Aires, Argentina) reports on a theater tour through Central and South America (February to June 2013), and Friedhelm Roth-Lange (Vienna Austria/Cologne, Germany) writes about a theatre festival for young people at the Volksbühne Berlin (June 2014).

The issue ends with an interview between Hanne Seitz (Fachhochschule Potsdam, Germany) and SCENARIO: Über Ästhetisches und Performatives.

The next SCENARIO issue will be dedicated to contributions based on talks and workshops at the First International Conference: Performative Teaching, Learning and Research in Cork (May/June 2014). More information will be uploaded in the next few weeks at http://www.ucc.ie/en/scenario/scenarioforum/scenarioforum-conference2014/.