The Use of Drama in Overcoming Anxiety in English as a Foreign Language Class: An Action Research
Öz
One of the purposes of foreign language teaching is to help students to be communicatively competent
so that they can use the language both in and outside the class. Traditional English as a foreign
language (EFL) classes are limited in giving the opportunity to the students to use the language
effectively in order to develop fluency. There are many graduated students who are unable to speak in
public or engage in real communication as they lack confidence in using the language. They can
understand the language that is spoken around them, but in practice they fail to use the language they
have learned effectively. The impetus for this study raised when such shortcomings were detected in an
undergraduate class called Literary Terminology. Eight junior students who were studying in English
Language and Literature (ELL) Department of a private university in north Cyprus participated in the
study. Drama activities were incorporated into the course as an intervention which lasted sixteen weeks.
The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with all the participants to be analyzed
qualitatively. The qualitative analysis revealed that a great majority of the participants benefited from
the intervention in terms of speaking anxiety, personal development and socialization.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Türk Halk Bilimi
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
20 Eylül 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
10 Ekim 2018
Kabul Tarihi
10 Mart 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 25 Sayı: 97