The Effect of Creative Art on Initiative of Early Childhood in the 2nd Year Kindergarten Level

Abstract

The purposes of this research were:  1) to study early childhood’s speaking skills development after holding the Folktale-telling activities and 2) to compare early childhood’s speaking skills development between pre and post activities of Folktale-telling. The sample consisted of 20 students of Kindergarten 3, 1 classroom, aged between 5-6 years who were studying at Ban Nokten school Phibunmangsahan District, Ubonratchathani Province, Ubonratchathani Primary Educational Service Area Office 3, in academic year 2020. They were selected by purposive sampling. The duration of experimentation in the second semester, academic year 2020 was 8 weeks, 3 days a week and 25 minutes a day. The method of experimentation was One group pretest-posttest design. The research instruments included: 1) 24 lesson plans with Folktale-telling activities in the level of highest quality, average 4.62 and 2) questionnaires of early childhood, Kindergarten 3’s speaking skills development with reliability .89. The data was analyzed by the way of percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test dependent samples.

          The findings can be summarized as follows:

1. For the development of early childhood children’s speaking skills after the Folktale-telling activities, the overall ability in using the early childhood children’s speaking skills, before experiment,  had the average of 18.30. The percentage was at 61.00 of which the ability in using speaking skills was in a fair level. After the experiment,  the overall ability in using the early childhood children’s speaking skills had the average of  29.05. The percentage was at 96.83 of which the ability in using speaking skills was in a good level.


2. The ability in using the early childhood children’s speaking skills before the experiment had the average of 18.74, and after the experiment, it had the average at 24.70 which had significantly statistical difference at the level of .01. After Folktale-telling activities, the early childhood children had higher development of speaking skills than the pre-activities. It was in accordance with the research hypothesis.