The Effectiveness of Dramatic Role-Playing on the Linguistic Achievement and the Development of Verbal Expressive Performance among the Basic 4th Grade Students in Jordan

Abstract

This study aimed at examining the effectiveness of the dramatic role- playing upon the linguistic achievement and the development of verbal expressive performance among the basic 4^th grade students in Jordan. To achieve the aims of the study, a linguistic patterns achievement test and the verbal expressive performance checklist were used. The sample of the study consisted of (52) 4^th grade students from a school that was purposefully selected from public school of Al- Zarqa educational district. The sample was randomly distributed into two groups. The experimental group consisted of (25) students who were taught by             ) dramatic role- playing methods, and the control group consisted of 27( students who were taught by the conventional methods. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the two groups in the linguistic pattern achievement test and the verbal expressive performance checklist in the favor of the experimental group.

Key words: Dramatic, Role-playing, Linguistic Achievement, Verbal Expressive Performance.