Abstract:

The objective of this study is to investigate whether drama activities which are integrated into the curriculum as a part of the daily plan make a meaningful difference on the acquisition of social skills of children aged six during the preschool education or not. The experiment group consists of 19 children who attend the kindergarten class of an elementary school in Buca, İzmir during the 2008-2009 Spring semester. 10 of them were placed in the experiment group and the other 9 were in the control group. The research applied the experiment and control group design. The repetetive measurements were conducted twice, before and after the research in order to measure students’ social skills. The research employed Social Skills Evaluation Scale (SSES) in order to measure students’ social skills both in the research group which creative drama activities were employed and the control group which traditional method was employed. The findings revealed that there is a statistically meaningful difference between the results of the students’ those who were in the experiment group and those in the control group in terms of both the scale and its subscales. The difference was found in favor of the experiment group.

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