Effect of Teaching through Drama on the Communication Abilities of EFL/ESL

This study presents the variation of effect of teaching through drama on the communication abilities of EFL/ESL learners with respect to their level of education. The researcher has selected randomly 60 male students from an institution named Nibrasul Islamic and Arts Collage in Trivandrum City of Kerala State, India and divided them into two groups, namely; 30 as the control group, and 30 as the experimental group. Then the paper examines the effect of drama method of instruction in all components of the selected Aspects and the use of drama instruction to enrich students’ knowledge by focusing on use of drama as an instructional tool. Moreover, it manifests how drama can help learners to develop their English. Accordingly, the effect of drama method of instruction on the achievement of student in all components of the Three Aspects from total achievement point of view is the same for Plus 1, Plus 2 and First Degree Course groups of students. Consequently, the effect of drama method of instruction is same among students in all educational levels

Keywords:

Teaching , Drama , Communication Ability , EFL , ESL Learners