Development of communicative competence in adolescents using physical education means and methods

• Published in: Journal of Physical Education and Sport 2022-09, Vol.22 (9), p.2023-2029
• Main Authors: Romanova, Elena, Kolokoltsev, Mikhail, Vorozheikin, Anton, Samoylova, Galena, Radchenko, Dmitry, Shirshova, Elena, Guryanov, Maxim, Aganov, Sergey, Balashkevich, Natalya
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adaptation; Adolescents; Children & youth; Communication; Communicative Competence (Languages); Control Groups; Didacticism; Experiments; Mental disorders; Mental health; Pedagogy; Physical education; Psychological tests; Secondary schools; Self control; Social networks; Teaching Methods; Teenagers
• ISSN: 2247-8051; 2247-806X
• DOI: 10.7752/jpes.2022.09258

The search for methods of increasing the level of communicative competence of schoolchildren by means of physical education is an important problem in pedagogy. The use of physical education methods for the development of communication qualities of secondary school children has not been sufficiently studied. Purpose: to develop and test a methodology in physical education classes to improve communicative competence in 13-14-year-old adolescents. Materials and methods. The study was conducted in the Siberian Federal District (Russia) in the 2020-2021 academic year among 60 children (13-14 years old) on the basis of a secondary school. Experimental (n = 30) and control groups (n = 30) were identified, in which 3 times a week physical education classes were conducted according to the curriculum of Lyakh (2012). For the experimental group, we developed a set of 49 tasks, where we used didactic games, the brainstorming method, discussions, a monologue, a way out of a problem situation, applied and social projects. In both groups, a milestone testing of the level of development of the communicative qualities of children was carried out using L. Michelson tests (Translation and adaptation by Yu.Z. Gilbukh); M. Snyder; V.V. Sinyavsky and BA. Fedorishin. Results. At the end of the research project, the results of the children in the experimental group in all psychological tests and the increase in indicators were significantly greater than in the children in the control one (p < 0.05). At the end of the project, the results of the L. Mchelson test showed that the number of children in EG with a competent type of response increased by 46.6%, children with a dependent type decreased by 44.3%, the aggressive type of response decreased by 2 times. According to the M. Snyder test, a higher level of social self-control was established in children of EG, compared with the results of children of CG. Analysis of the test results after the experiment using the methods of V. V. Sinyavsky and B. A. Fedorishin showed that there were no children with a low level of communication development in the experimental group, 30% of children in this group had average and above average, 26.7% of children had the highest level of development of communicative and organizational inclinations. Conclusions. The results of the experiment of increasing communicative competencies testify to a higher efficiency of the pedagogical method of physical education proposed by us in 13 -14-year-old child