Role Play In English Language Teaching

Is it useful if we use role play method in English Language Teaching class? According to the result of mini survey about students perception about the effect of role play on their interpersonal way of learn, forty respondent from fifty students were invited to participated in this survey, they feel impressive with this method because they get the benefit such as active to participate, enjoy working in group, and increase they communication competence (Daiga Kamerāde, n.d.). However, Moss defines that Role play is used to teach student and construct their social work of a visual representation and how to confront the terrible and complex situation that the characters concerned (2000). The purpose of this method is to deliver a message by showing

Role play is a particularly effective device for pronunciation due to various components of communicative competence. Such as; discourse, intonation, pragmatic awareness, and non-verbal communication can be practiced in one way. As we know that role play is an action and it has the storyline that they use in the performance. The storyline itself just like discourse that they have to show and also need to pronounce the storyline with the proper intonation when they are acting. While perform, the student must pretend their self as the character itself as well as the idiom “I put myself on somebody shoes”. Accordingly, they can showing the better performances. In the same way, Students can get the opportunity to communicate with speak fluently in English. For instance, while learning a role play, students are encouraged to listen too, potentially read and then repeat their lines. By repeating the words and phrases they become familiar with them and they are able to say with increasing fluency. Therefore, role play can improve students’ speaking skill by using the correct pronunciation and speaking fluently. To conclude, in English language teaching, there are many ways that can be apply in the classroom. But one of the best way for make student not getting bored and make students interesting in learning process is trough role play. Most importantly, role play can build the confidence, and the confidence level increase when students have something to talk and they know how to express their ideas. Briefly, if we want to developed students’ communication competence, we should appertain Role play in English class due to it is useful to makes our students more active, expansion their affiliation and speaking