Effectiveness Of Drama Technique for Teaching Speaking Skill At Secondary Level

Abstract

This research report Effectiveness of Drama Technique for Teaching Speaking Skill at Secondary Level was aimed to investigate about how students' speaking skills may be enhanced through the employment of drama techniques. Indeed, drama activities are believed to foster students' interest in the subject and consequently to improve their speaking abilities at secondary level. This research has been carried out practically to address the issue of students speaking ability through drama skill. An experimental research design was adopted, for this purpose, Bishwa Adarsh Secondary School Itahari-4 was selected by judgmental sampling method and 30 students from grade IX were taken as sample population. Test items were the main tools for data collection. In order to achieve the goal of research the students were divided into two groups viz, an experimental group and a control group on the basis of alphabetical order of their names. Both groups have been administered pre-test to measure their initial level of proficiency. Both groups were taught 25 lesson plans separately. In continuation, the experimental group was taught by using learner-centered teaching method based on drama activities; meanwhile the control group was taught using traditional method.After completion of teaching 25 lesson plans, a post-test was administered using the same test item of the pretest. Then performance scores of the students of both tests were compared and analyzed. The main finding of the research is that teaching by using drama technique was found more effective for developing speaking skill than traditional way of teaching.The conclusions of theresearch showed that experimental group was better than the control group. It means that drama technique was very fruitful to teach speaking skill. The present study consists of five main chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the study where it deals with background of the study, statement of the problem, objective, research questions,and significance of the study and the delimitations with operational definitions of the key terms are discussed. The second chaper contains the review of related literature,and conceptual framework. Similarly, the third chapter deals with methodology and procedures of the study. It includes design of the study, sources of data, sample population and procedures of the study, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation. Likewise, the fourth chapter includes results and discussions that deal with the analysis and interpretation of the data. Finally, the fifth chapter comprises of the summary, conclusions and implication. At the end, the references and appendixes are included.