The purpose of this study is to investigate how literature courses, involved in the curriculum of the department of English Language Teaching from the second year to the fourth year, help students to acquire the target culture in EFL classes. Since learning a language does not mean only learning the lexical structures of any language, culture holds an important place in internalizing the way of thinking and appropriate use of target language. This study has been designed in a naturalistic environment, thus interview and observation were used as the main data collection techniques. The study was designed as a descriptive qualitative research. Participants were chosen by the help of an experienced colleague working in the above mentioned department for three years, and most of the participants were under her supervision, thus this case facilitated the process of interviewing participants. The findings showed that the literature courses contribute much to gain the target culture due the very nature of literature reflecting the society and traditions of society in which it was written. In addition, leaarners may have the chance of comparing thier own culture with target culture and this facilitates their learning. However, some missing points and misapplications were reported by students in providing a more appropriate environment for reflecting the target culture.

Educational drama prioritizes the participation of students to education process, and increasing the feelings of empathy and tolerance during this process and the way of creating original educational environments in line with the contributions of each learner. For this reason, the flourish of constructivist educational philosophy increased the advocators and practitioners of drama in education. In this manner, this study searches for answer to the question of whether this course is dealt with its own creative functions or regarded as any theoretical course referring the drama as an art form. To this end, the researcher designed a Likert type questionnaire serving to measure the students' inclination towards drama as a creative or an artistic form. Following the validity and reliability stages of the instrument, it was administered to 65 students in the department of ELT. All the subjects were attending the drama course given to them in 2014-2015 academic year in fall term. Next, descriptive statistical measurements in SPSS programme were conducted to analyse the related data. These statistical procedure was assured with qualitative data gathered through interviewing some of these students. The results of the study uncovered that the related course was given to students in the form of any pure theatrical course aiming to inform students about the birth and development of theatre by ignoring the recommendations of Higher Board of Education.