The use of Virtual Reality in education has been highly prevalent in recent years. In nearly every domain of education, integration of Virtual Reality has been ongoing including foreign language teaching and learning. There is a huge shift in teaching and learning facilities from conventional classrooms to interactive ones. What makes Virtual Reality special in comparison to other technologies are immersion, interaction and involvement properties. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the studies on foreign language learning and teaching through virtual reality technology and to highlight the current trends on this topic, thus propose some suggestions for future researchers of this field. Document analysis method was used in this study. Like other analytical methods in a qualitative research, document analysis requires that data be examined and interpreted in order to elicit meaning, gain understanding, and develop empirical knowledge. 40 research papers published between the years 1995 and 2015 were scanned in terms of data collection tools, research design, sample, sample size, data analysis method, and the topic of the paper. The results of the study revealed that document analysis was in the first place in terms of data collection tool and half of the studies were qualitative. In addition, undergraduate population was primarily the focus of attention. As from sample size, 101-300 size was primarily used. Moreover, effectiveness of virtual reality and game-based learning were the two outstanding topics of these studies.

The aim of this study is to teach creative drama techniques to Amasya University English Language Teaching Department students in the scope of Young Learners courses, enrich students’ vision to perform different activities in practicum practices and observe its contributions to the course process. Four stages of creative drama, namely warm-up/relaxation activities, games, improvisation and evaluation were included in this research and supported as a project by the Scientific Research Commission of Amasya University. In this research the scale of attitudes towards creative drama, consisting of 50 items was adapted and used as a highlighting part of ‘‘Teaching English to Young Learners’’ course. As a method, namely qualitative research referring to both descriptive and phenomenological researches was used in the study. Moreover, to support the results of qualitative ones, the quantitative statistics of One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test, Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test for Paired Samples were applied to the collected data. Related to the obtained results, it was clearly seen that the teaching English to young learners courses should be enriched with creative drama activities in the process of teacher training and the prospective teachers need to be fostered using this kind of practices during their faculty education.

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