Impact of Creative Drama Method on the Academic Achievement of University Students and Their Attitude towards Speaking French

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The objective of this research is to determine the impact of the usage of creative drama method on foreign language courses on university students’ academic achievement and their attitude towards speaking French. The implementation of this research was conducted at Gazi University, Faculty of Education Department of French Language Teaching for three weeks with French preparatory class students. The sample groups were assigned as the control group (N=15) and the experimental group (N=16) by convenience sampling method. The data for the research was obtained from the achievement test, attitude scale and journals kept by the experiment group after each course. The achievement test was applied to the students after the courses and the attitude scale was applied before and after the implementation. In order to identify the differences between the averages in the analysis of the quantitative data collected, the t-test and the ANCOVA test among parametric analysis were conducted. The findings of the research showed that there has been a statistical significant difference in the French language achievement of teacher students of the experimental group whereas no significant difference between the attitudes of students towards speaking French was found. According to the findings pertaining to the journals of the teacher students in the experiment group the in-class education practices and the applied creative drama activities have been beneficial and effective. In the light of these findings, it may be assumed that creative drama has a positive effect on the French learning achievement of students.

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Creative drama , French language teaching , French teaching , learning

Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences

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Journal Of Graduate School Of Social Sciences