Impact of Creative Drama Method on Students’ Speaking Skills

Abstract

Aim of the research was to investigate the impact of creative method on improving students’ speaking skills in primary school 3rd grade Turkish language course. The study was carried out with primary school 3rd graders studying at a private primary school in Çaycuma, Zonguldak. The research was carried out on forty-six 3rd grade students. Quasi-experimental design with pretest-posttest control group was used in the study. Speaking education was given using creative drama method in the experimental group and using current instructional program (traditional teaching method) in the control group. In the study, “Speaking Skill Assessment Rubric” developed by the researcher was employed as data collection instrument. Intervention lasted for six weeks. Shapiro-Wilk normality test was employed to determine whether the data showed normal distribution or not. The data were analyzed via SPSS package program version 20.0. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation and t test was calculated in data analysis. As a result of the study, a significant difference was observed between speaking skills of the students in the experimental group and the ones in the control group; the difference was in favor of the experimental group.