OVERCOMING SPEAKING ANXIETY IN ENGLISH THROUGH THEATRE PRODUCTION ACTIVITY:A CASE OF PRE-SERVICE EFL TEACHERS
TİYATRO UYGULAMASI YOLU İLE İNGİLİZCE KONUŞMA KAYGISININ ÜSTESİNDEN GELMEK: HİZMETÖNCESİ İNGİLİZCE ÖĞRETMENLERİ İLE BİR ÇALIŞMA

Author : Özge Gül ZEREY
Number of pages : 440-455

Abstract

The effectiveness of an original-text theater application upon the second grade ELT students’ foreign language speaking anxiety is the main concern of this study. A maximum attention has been paid to be in line with the technicality of a performative approach (Essif, 1998) to the dramatic text so as to provide students with an actual state similar with the atmosphere reflected in the authentic text both in Wilder’s “Our Town” as a phase of the pilot study and Arden’s “Live Like Pigs” as a basis for the main study. The data were collected through a number of different data collection tools; the qualitative instruments were the interview and diary and the quantitative one was the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (Horwitz, Horwitz and Cope, 1986). Based upon the results of pre and post administration of the FLCAS and the findings from the interviews and the diaries participants kept during the rehearsals, it can be concluded that staging of a play generates positive effects automatically lowering the students’ speaking anxiety and also makes them attain self-confidence and courage for speaking English in public.

Keywords

speaking anxiety, theatre production

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