The effectiveness of multimedia in developing and retaining diction skills among theater students

Abstract

Abstract :

The significance of the paper lies in the fact that it copes with the modern trends in delineating the current electronic media and programs in teaching. Tis paper is regarded a scientific study which calls, throughout results to be obtained by the researcher, to improve the presentation skills of theater department students via making use of multimedia in training them to have presentation skills.

This paper aims at finding out the Efficacy of Multi Media on the Improvement of the Skills of Presentation and Retaining Them Among Students in the Department of theater.

The researcher adopted the experimental approach due to its suitability to the problem of the paper and its aim. The sample of the study comprised of (30) third year students in Institute of Fine Arts for Boys in Diyala Province divided into two equal groups; experimental and control, with (15) students each. Moreover, the researcher used presentation skills as a tool in the study as well as making use of the SPSS to process the data. Thus, he figured out the following conclusions:

1. There are statistically significant differences between the pre and post tests of the experimental and control groups in favor of the posttests.
2. There are statistically significant variations between the experimental and control groups in the posttest in favor of the experimental group.
3. There is a positive influence of multimedia on the improvement of presentation skills of experimental group members.

Furthermore, in the light of these conclusions, the researcher recommends the following:

1. The necessity to delineate multimedia in the theater department lessons in the Institute of Fine Arts, especially those dealing with improving the abilities and potentials of students.
2. The necessity to include presentation skills in the drama syllabus in the Institute of Fine Arts.
3. The necessity to focus on language skills generally, and creative presentation skills specifically as well as analyzing these skills and improving them among students of the Institute of Fine Arts.