The Role of Drama in Developing Communication Competencies of Early Primary School Students

Abstract

The article is an attempt to answer the question of what role drama plays in the development of competences among early childhood education pupils. The theoretical part presents the concepts of competences and key competences in the context of linguistic, cognitive and social processes. Next, the authors briefly discuss the method of drama by presenting the classification of G. Bolton’s drama techniques. The practical part discusses the results of tests carried out among teachers (posttest) and among pupils (pretest, posttest, and language proficiency test).

Keywords

• communication competetions
• key competences
• drama
• early childhood education