Abstract
THE EFFECT OF SPEAKING EDUCATION BASED ON DIRECT INSTRUCTION TEACHING MODEL ON SPEAKING SKILLS AND SPEAKING ANXIETY OF 5TH GRADE STUDENTS
This research investigates the effect of speaking education based in direct instruction teaching model on speaking skills and speaking anxiety of 5th grade students. The study was conducted at Bartın İMKB Secondary School in 2015-2016 academic years. One of the 5th grades at the school was selected as control group and 21 students participated to the study from each group. Courses in the test group were taught through curriculum based on Direct Instruction Teaching Model while courses in the control group were taught based on the instructions given in speaking activities at teacher's guidebook of Turkish course. Semi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test control group was applied in this research. The study lasted for 10 weeks and the data were collected through “Evaluation Form of Speaking Skills” developed by the researcher and “Speaking Anxiety Scale for Secondary School Students” developed by Demir and Melanlıoğlu (2014).
Pre-test and post-test were applied on both groups. The research findings were evaluated by the researcher and an expert; and the results were analyzed via SPSS 20.0. For the analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test was initially applied and data with normal distribution were analyzed through t-test while those without normal distribution were analyzed through Mann Whitney U test. At the end of the research, a significant difference was found in both speaking skills and speaking anxiety of students in test group compared to the control group.
Keywords
Turkish language teaching, Direct Instruction Teaching Model, speaking skill, speaking anxiety.