The effectiveness of drama-based language teaching in improving students' oral language skills: Longitudinal studies

This study aims to examine the effectiveness of drama-based language teaching on oral language skills, namely the presentation skills of students in college. The research method used is a quasi-experimental method by dividing the participants into two groups. The research participants consisted of 160 students taken from the college level. Participants were divided into two groups with a composition of 80 experimental groups and 80 control groups. The results showed that the presentation skills of the experimental group showed a significant improvement after participating in the drama performance. The improvement in presentation skills occurs in three aspects, namely the structure of the presentation, adaptation to the audience and the quality of the presentation content. So, it can be concluded that this drama-based language teaching can encourage and practice speaking skills in real terms so that it has an impact on students' presentation skills. The implication of this research is that drama can be used as an alternative assignment in order to improve students' presentation skills. Keywords: Oral language skills, presentation skills, language teaching, drama