Drama Performance Facilitates Papuan Seminarians to Create

52 sentence spoken by the narrator. However, after practicing, it turned out that pantomime was a great chance for them to sharpen their listening skills which also involved their bodily-kinesthetic intelligence. It is worth noting that Papuan seminarians at St. Paul House of Spiritual Formation have the opportunity to speak out loud through the story telling drama. The story telling drama which was one of the techniques done in the program “Jayanti Formative English 2014” was based on the narrative stories taken from Aesop. This story telling drama was a new arrangement of one of the narrative stories which was organized in dialogues or scripts. This story telling drama also involved the students’ creativity because they should take a part the scripts writer. Thus, instead of being the actors of the drama, which means the Papuan seminarians practiced their listening and speaking skills, they also practice their reading and writing skills through writing the drama scripts. Bruner 1986 as cited in Brauer 2002 explains that human beings actively create their own models related to their capacity to acquire language, the objective reality of the real world, the culture in which they are immersed. In other words, knowledge is constructed by each learner. Therefore, in this context, Papuan seminarians construct their knowledge express their understanding toward English learning through practicing some activities in drama performance such as gesturing English stories and drama script, speaking and pronouncing English words, and finally write English words and sentences. 53 The seminarians’ attitude toward the importance of drama performance to develop their creativity and writing skill are presented in form of percentage by the table below. Table 4. The Seminarians’ Attitude Related to the Creativity and Writing Skill No. Statements SA A D SD 12. Drama performance facilitates me to develop my creativity. 43 57 - - 11. Drama performance facilitates me to write English sentences. 29 43 29 - From the findings of questionnaire items, all seven Papuan seminarians at St. Paul House of Spiritual Formation state their agreement to the statement that drama performance improves their creativity. Then, there are five Papuan seminarians who support the second statement that drama performance facilitates the Papuan seminarians in writing English sentences. However, there are two seminarians who disagree to the statement. By conducting the study, it can be stated that the Papuan seminarians at St. Paul House of Spiritual Formation recognize the importance of drama performance in improving their creativity and their writing ability. Based on Fontichiaro 2010, retelling stories through drama calls on students to demonstrate two key skills. One is the ability to understand the elements of story such as its plot, character, setting, and sequence of events. The