Abstract:

Writing, which is one of the basic language skills, is seen as a difficult skill for students from the first class of primary school. The skill of writing should be both loved by the student and the different methods and techniques should be used so that the student can use this skill without trouble. The creative drama method is a method that activates the student, enables learning by entertaining, which can be easily applied in inter-class events. The creative writing skills also enable the student to freely expose his dreams and thoughts, such as the creative drama method. In this regard, the creative drama method reveals the creativity of students and helps them create writing skills. The purpose of this research is the primary school of the creative drama method 4. Study the influence of class students on their creative writing skills. This study, which is applied by the semi-experimental model, is made up of students of the 4th grade who study in the Tefen Primary School and Namazgah Primary School located in the Zonguldak or Gökçebey district in the 2017-2018 educational year. The study’s work group consists of a total of 32 students, including 17 experimental groups, 15 control groups. While the experimental group was conducted with creative drama events and creative story writing work, the control group continued the teaching in accordance with the curriculum. After 6 weeks of creative drama events, the story was printed as the last test to the experiment and control group. The "Creative Writing Assessment Measures Form (YIDÖF)" developed by Red (2008) has evaluated the creative writing skills of students. In the analysis of the data, the SPSS 20 package program has calculated the arithmetic average, frequency, percentage, standard deviation, Mann Whitney U, Wilcoxon Test used. In accordance with the objectives of the study, when the creative writing skills of the students of the experiment and control group were studied, the result was a significant difference in the benefit of the experiment group. This result shows that the creative drama method has a positive impact on the creative writing skills.

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