The Effects of Digital Drama-Based Instruction on Developing Receptive and Expressive Language among Kindergarten Children

Abstract

Young children need to mentally retrieve and express words aloud. They also need understood words when they are heard or read. The purpose of this study was to gain insight into the potential effects of digital drama -based instruction on developing receptive and expressive language among kindergarten children. This study employed a quantitative approach using a quasi-experimental, pre-test and post-test and follow up design. Sixty students were randomly chosen from public kindergartens. The kindergartens were randomly selected from the total number of public kindergartens in the city. They were divided into two groups: experimental group, where they received drama -based instruction for 6 weeks. While children in the control group did not receive such an instruction. The researcher has chosen a number of study topics that are the main topics of the curriculum approved in Kindergarten stage (e.g. Read facial expressions, Natural phenomena, and the Four Seasons etc.). They were formulated in the form of dramatic representations in which movement and action are acted by children at this stage. Using a pre-testintervention-post-test, and follow up design, it has been shown that digital dramabased instruction was effective in developing receptive and expressive language among kindergarten children.

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