I have come accross a wonderful piece of literature entitled 'Critical links: Learning in the arts and student academic and social development' by the Arts Education Partnership.
http://www.aep-arts.org/files/publications/CriticalLinks.pdf
The Arts Education Partnership are an American based coalition that promotes the Arts in America's schools. They undergo studies to prove that the use of the Arts increases the learning and development of school children.
One of the results of these studies was written by Ann Podlozny and published by the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Fall 2000, 34(3-4): 239-276, in which the following question was asked:
"Does classroom drama help students develop verbal ability?"
Podlozny set seven different areas in which she would study, including story understanding (oral measures), story understanding (written measures), reading achievement, reading readiness, oral language development, vocabulary, and writing. The results of the studies undertaken showed that there is a possitive correlation between drama instruction and verbal ability, prompting the Arts Education Partnership to encourage drama to be included in the classroom.
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