Teatro como herramienta educativa de expresión oral y escrita para estudiantes de la carrera de comunicación social de la universidad técnica de Ambato promoción 2017-2021

Abstract

Theater and communication marked a milestone in the history of man, who from the beginning had the need to relate and express himself with the people around his social environment to establish communication links that allow him to establish a process of transmission of messages, knowledge and emotions, through representations that resemble reality. Under this background, the main objective of the present study was to analyze theater as an educational tool for oral and written expression for students of the Social Communication career at the Technical University of Ambato. The research was carried out under the qualitative approach, the interview and the focus group were used as a technique, and the questionnaire as an instrument, the research participants were teachers and students of the social communication career. The sample worked in the research responds to: an expert, volunteers, a diverse sample and a homogeneous sample, this in order to gather information, based on the testimonies of the interviewees to know their point of view on the subject in question. Data collection was virtually through the videoconferencing platform, Zoom. The main results showed that theater is an effective educational tool to enhance the communication skills of students at all educational levels and in all areas, with more reason in social careers, in the same way it is proven that through theater they are incorporated and promote communication skills and educational competencies that improve the student and professional work of students. A social Communicator is an actor, since he represents different roles in his profession, in this way, acting techniques and theatrical activities within the university training process, develop the oral, written and corporal expression of the participants, since the relationship between theater and social communication is solid, both work in a complementary and comprehensive way as they are message transmission processes.