Advantages Of Role Play In Classroom

As Bendaji (2007) states there are different types of role-play. For example there are dramatic plays, story dramatization and socio drama, seminar style presentations, debates and interviews. It is teacher who choose one of these according to the background and level of the learners, so the activities must be relevant to the learners ' needs. Using role-plays in classroom brings variety to the lesson and removes the shackles of routine. It exposes the students to speaking about everything which improves their speaking skills. Role-plays overcome the students ' shyness and build self-confidence in front of an audience. It creates a challenge among the students and makes the whole class participate. The interaction widens the student

However there are some issues about using songs which should be considered. Teachers should choose appropriate songs for the learners. And also may be the language, vocabulary and sentence structures of the songs be different from that which is used in spoken English. If one song is used too often learners ' interest can fade very soon. Although there are many advantages for using Role-Plays but there are some problems with using them. Some students feel difficulty with these activities, they feel nervous when making an oral presentation in front of others.

1.1.3. Advantages of Role-Plays: Through some activities in role-playing skills students can practice speaking skills in any situation and also they will be provided with more vocabularies, also they are trained to maintain their social relationships. For people who travel to another country it would be useful because enables them to know in each situation how they should interact with others. Role-play is a fun game and learners enjoy doing this funny game, also they make use of their imagination, it has positive effect on motivation. With the help of role-play activities students are provided with linguistic knowledge like vocab, functions, and structures. By using role play learners ' creativity increases, they accept their responsibilities and duties so always they will do the best they

Researches show that meta-cognitive also has positive effect both on oral ability and other learning ability like reading through using prediction, inferring and making connections to one 's life. They also believe that if students actively engages in particular meta-cognitive strategies like mental image, and predicting so they would be able to monitor and evaluate their learning activity. Eslami Rasekh (2003) states learners should be aware of different strategies that can help them in the process of learning, teachers who teach these strategies to their learners are more aware of their students ' needs. By using appropriate vocabulary learning strategies learners will be able to acquire lots of vocabs by meaningful reading, speaking, and writing. So we can see although Role-Play technique is a good way for improving the ability of speaking in foreign language learners but it may have some disadvantageous, there may be lack of the interest, lack of confidence, and fearing of making errors, in this case learners do not feel relax and there would be resistance on the side of them for speaking, but there are some techniques which can resolve this problems, metacognitive approaches are appropriate in these