The use of drama activities to increase student motivation towards speaking english

In Turkey, students have prejudice towards speaking so they have low motivation at this point. In the meanwhile, speaking a foreign language is one of the important and complex processes of learning a language. Drama has an effect to enhance motivation while creating a good atmosphere and having positive effect in terms of participation of students and arrangement of classroom. The main aim of this study is to reveal effect of drama activities on students' motivation towards speaking skills.The study was conducted on 25 participants from 6th grade students in Dumlupınar Elementary school in Şahinbey. Pre-test and post-test was adopted to find out the effect of drama activities on students' motivation towards speaking skills. In data collection, after each lesson personal notebooks created 6 questions were written by students. The results of this study aimed to prove positive effect of drama activities to students' motivation towards speaking English. Keywords: Drama, Speaking English, Motivation