The effectiveness of storytelling on the level of moral intelligence and vocabulary of second grade students

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Golestan Farhangian University

2 Master student of curriculum planning, Payame Noor University of Damghan

Abstract

Story and Storytelling is as old as human history in such a way that human beings have portrayed their lives within the framework of stories, and stories have shaped, transformed and changed human life. The present study was a pre-test-post-test with the control group that aimed to investigate the effect of storytelling on moral intelligence and vocabulary treasure of second grade elementary school students. The statistical population included all female students in the second grade of primary school in District 2 of Shiraz in the academic year 1399-1400. The statistical sample consisted of 52 students who were selected by random cluster sampling. The moral intelligence questionnaire of Ali Akbari Dehkordi, Golpayegani and Mohtashami (2015) was used to measure moral intelligence and the revised Wechsler children's intelligence scale was used to measure vocabulary. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that storytelling promotes students' moral intelligence and vocabulary (P≤0.01). Therefore, it can be concluded that children's moral and verbal intelligence can be developed and can be tried to improve it by using appropriate methods.

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