Effect of educational games on speech skills and speech anxiety of primary school forth grade students

The purpose of this research is that, educational games used in Turkish lesson primary school 4th grade students over impromptu speaking skills and speech concerns to determine whether it can make significant differences in favor of the experimental group. In the study, pre-test and post-test unequaled control group model, which is one of the semi-experimental model types, was used. 28 students attending 4th grade in Burdur Altın Terim Solmaz Primary School in the fall semester of 2018-2019 academic year are the working group of the research. In this study, 15 students represent 4-A class experimental group and 13 students represent 4-B class control group. In the experimental group, Turkish lessons were taught and supported by educational games for six weeks. In the control group, it was processed in accordance with the teaching-learning approaches in the Turkish Curriculum. As data collection tools; "Speaking Anxiety Scale" developed by Yıldırım (2015) and "Impromptu Speaking Achievement Rubric" developed by the researcher were used to assess students' speaking anxiety levels. In addition, "Personal Information Form", "Impromptu Speech Subjects" and "Turkish Lesson Plans" prepared by the researcher were utilized. Data analysis was performed with SPSS 22 package program. In the analysis of data, mean, standard deviation, skewness, kurtosis, histogram graph and boxplot graph, Shapiro Wilk test and Mann-Whitney U test were used. According to the results of the study, it was concluded that educational games positively affected the three-dimensional speaking order and style of speech, including the use of voice, which are composed of audibility and meaningfulness dimensions, topic and thought transfer, refinement, and use of time. It was concluded that educational games did not affect students' speech anxiety. The state of anxiety is not affected by this six-week practice of educational games can be explained by the short implementation period. A similar study can be conducted with a larger sample group over a longer period of application.