Fostering elementary school children's public speaking skills: A randomized controlled trial
ARTICLE
Evelin Herbein, Jessika Golle, Maike Tibus, Julia Schiefer, Ulrich Trautwein, Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, Germany ; Ingo Zettler, Department of Psychology, Denmark
Learning and Instruction Volume 55, Number 1, ISSN 0959-4752 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Mastering public speaking is a competence which is already required in elementary school. Surprisingly, however, systematic research on the promotion of public speaking competence among elementary school children is scarce. In order to address this gap, we developed and evaluated a public speaking training for elementary school children. The training, an extracurricular enrichment program, consisted of 12 units covering speech anxiety, nonverbal communication, and comprehensibility. A randomized controlled trial with repeated measures (
Citation
Herbein, E., Golle, J., Tibus, M., Schiefer, J., Trautwein, U. & Zettler, I. (2018). Fostering elementary school children's public speaking skills: A randomized controlled trial. Learning and Instruction, 55(1), 158-168. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved August 8, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/199638/.
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