The effect of humour strategies on speaking anxiety in EFL classes

English is an international language around the world (Crystal, 2020). Therefore, people have to learn how speak and communicate with other who are from different countries or nationalities. However, there not enough opportunities for education in Turkey. teaching Turkey usually carried out by just grammar rules.. So, it can bring about some problems as learners can’t English, even if they always afraid of making mistakes. Especially, try avoid mistakes rules. The more focus on while speaking, anxiety speaking. Hence, most Though we classes primary school university, makes nervous At this point, humour strategies help decrease speaking t learners. Humour positive impact overcoming anxiety. research aims investigate effects preparatory class 1st-year students studying at Necmettin Erbakan University School Foreign Language. This study has been conducted participation 250 university prep aged between 18-21. A mixed method used collect data. Data collected through a survey scale, interview questions.