DEVELOPMENT OF A THEATRE AND DRAMA PROGRAM FOR LANGUAGE SKILLS ENHANCEMENT AND STUDY ITS EFFECTIVENESS

The study is focused on the development of theater and drama program for Language skills enhancement of
sixth standard students from English medium school. The objectives of the study were to develop and implement the
theater and drama program for teaching unit (Sahasi Shailendra) of Marathi Language text of Standard VI and to
find the effectiveness of the program on the Marathi Language Skills achievement. Sample for the study was sixty
students of standard sixth from English medium school of Pune city. The researchers had chosen two equivalent
group design for the experiment. The theater and drama program was implemented as a treatment. By using‘t’ test,
the post test scores of two groups were compared and it was found effective .