Developing children's language creativity through telling stories - An experimental study

The study, presented in the article, is experimental in nature. It tested whether three educational methods - “Storyline”, “Associations Pyramid”, and “Reading stories to children” - are effective in developing language creativity. To determine the effectiveness level, an analysis of the stories created individually by five-year-old children was conducted. The stories were assessed on a number of dimensions. It was assumed that the compared methods are similarly effective in developing language creativity, and the effect is stable. In post-test 1, the experimental groups (“Storyline”, “Associations Pyramid”) had slightly better results than the control group (“Reading”), but the difference was not significant. The present study confirmed the effectiveness of the “Storyline” and “Associations Pyramid” methods (Smogorzewska, 2012), despite the fact that the methods were used in different way this time.