Development of a Package of Storytelling Activities with Creative Drama to Enhance Relationship Skills of Primary School Students
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The purposes of this study were 1) to develop a package of storytelling activities with creative drama to enhance relationship skills of primary school students and 2) to study the effects of using the activity package. The sample were 13 of Grade 2 students who studied at schools under the Office of the Private Education Commission in Lopburi in the second semester of the academic year 2021. Participants were selected by purposive sampling method. The data collection tools were a relationship skills assessment which is used with the assessment center simultaneously. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation and Wilcoxon Sign rank-test.
The research findings showed that the activity package included eight activities which employed various storytelling techniques to make students understand a story and connect the idea and the point of view between themselves and the characters. Besides, creative drama was used so that students could have an interaction with friends by expressing feelings, making gestures and working with others in drama playing from the story to which they had listened. This activity package consisted of six key elements including concept and main feature of the activity package, the objective of the activity package, the activity in the package, the activity process, guidelines for using the activity package, and evaluation guidelines. After using the activity package, students had a higher mean post-test score on the relationship skills than pre-test at the .05 level of significance. When considered separately by the components of relationship skills, it was found that all of them had a higher mean score at the .05 level of significance, except teamwork.
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