The achievement in learning a foreign language depends not only on cognitive factors such as intelligence, aptitude etc., but also on affective factors such as attitude and motivation. As the main branch of prospective teachers of English is teaching a language, their attitudes towards English and towards being a teacher are of vital importance in their future careers. The purpose of this descriptive study is to determine whether the attitudes of the students of English Language Teaching Department towards English affect their attitudes towards being a teacher of English and whether the students' attitudes indicate significant differences with regard to individual variables such as gender, class, the types of High Schools from which they have graduated, their socio-economic background, and whether there is a teacher in their family. The sample group of the study were composed 540 prospective English teachers of the first, second, third and fourth year students of the

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One of the most theoretical lessons in English Language Teaching (ELT) classrooms is 'Language Acquisition" which is in the programme of second grade students. In order to make this lesson much more attractive and to introduce English language teacher candidates to creative drama, a case study was carried out in Dokuz Eylül University, ELT Department. The main objective of this study is to determine the perceptions of prospective teachers on creative drama. The sample of this study is composed of 33 second grade prospective teachers of Dokuz Eylül University, ELT Department in the 2012-2013 spring term. This particular group were selected randomly from the students who were taking 'language acquisition' lesson at the time of the study. Within the scope of this study a-six hour-lesson plan, in which creative drama was utilized, was prepared and the researcher herself taught in this group. For data collection; an interview which was made with randomly selected five students related to the creative drama process they experienced and a survey which was administered as pre and post test were used. The results indicated that prospective teachers of English agree on the effectiveness of creative drama in ELT classrooms Anahtar Sözcükler Creative drama English language teaching Language acquisition lesson

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