Her Still-empty Sketchbooks : To Write a Painting or Paint a Writing?
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For several years now, many Japanese students of second languages and fine and performing arts have mystified me with their "poor-performance excuse" of "Until our skills are perfect, we can neither speak English nor sketch the simplest of scenes." At face value I understand their intended meaning, but then again, following their reasoning, I ponder how there can be successful communicative language or art without the concomitant risking that success warrants. Somewhat Unsure of my own footing, however, I have resultantly been considering that the rationale for these learners' "lesser ability" may also be reflected somewhere in myself as their teacher. In this paper, I accordingly challenge the validity of two interrelated personal convictions. Firstly, sketching and painting are as equally effective ways to respond to any given question or situation as are speaking and writing. Secondly, in our language and art communication, expressing our sentiments is very often more vital than our attempting to be perfect. I explore the worthiness of these beliefs by reviewing brief examples of the creative process of several contemporary travel diarists and watercolor painters and how they view drafting and sketching as learning skills in reaching their shared verbal and visual communication goals. Through this review, I seek to underscore our need to cease leaning on perfectionist principles and take risks in our language and arts learning to ensure our steady communicative growth.
- 昭和女子大学の論文
- 2006-03-01
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