Impact of Creative Dramatic Techniques on Listening skills of Private Nursery School’s Pupil in Ondo-West Local Government, Ondo State

Abstract

Poor acquisition of listening skill has been lamented by stakeholders in 
the education system in recent years especially at the primary schools 
level. Evidence has shown that, this problem could be traced to nursery 
education. Though, researchers have observed that improving this 
scenario requires doing activities, a learning and teaching process that 
creative dramatics techniques could achieve. More so, there is a dearth 
of studies on creative dramatics techniques as it relates to listening skill 
in private nursery schools in Ondo State. It is against this background 
that the study investigates the impact of creative dramatics techniques 
(Pantomime and Dramatization of Poem) on listening (comprehensive 
listening and discriminative listening) skills among private nursery 
school’s pupils in Ondo West Local Government, Ondo State. 
Questionnaire was used to gather data from 105 teachers purposively 
selected from 53 private nursery schools. The results showed that 
creative dramatics techniques and listening skills have strong 
correlation (R = 0.556, The P<0.05), and that Dramatization of poem 
(? = 0.51, t = 9.998; P<0.05) contributes significantly to listening skills 
than pantomime (? = 0.14, t = 4.238; P<0.05).It is therefore 
recommended that government and stakeholders should put in place 
training that will improve teachers’ knowledge in creative dramatics, 
especially for nursery schools’ teachers. In conclusion, adopting 
pantomime and dramatization of poem in nursery school will stimulate 
the learning capacity of the pupils in nursery school to easily capture 
the skills required to cultivate comprehensive and discriminative 
exercises.