The Voice that Leaves a Trace: Meaning Constructed Through the BodyIn

The Voice that Leaves a Trace: Meaning Constructed Through the BodyIn language teaching, stress and intonation are often treated as technical learning outcomes. Yet meaning is constructed not only through words, but through bodily orientation, spatial positioning, and the traces left by the voice. This workshop invites participants to experience stress and intonation in English not merely as skills, but as dramatic actions and relational movements. The session progresses from embodied exploration to dramatic application. Participants will engage physically with how shifts in emphasis reshape meaning, relationships, and intention. Through structured improvisations and performative tasks, vocal expression will be examined as something that emerges from the body rather than something added to speech. The aim is to develop a perspective that does not separate voice from body, and to collectively investigate how meaning is constructed through embodied action. By the end of the workshop, participants will leave with practical strategies applicable in classroom and performance contexts, as well as a renewed awareness of how vocal expression leaves a trace in interaction.