The role of role plays in teaching english
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Language teaching is not just about teaching languages, it is also about helping students to
develop themselves as people. Role play is a technique in which students are presented with
a real or artificial environment and they are exposed with some kind of case or situation and they
need to exhibit the same in form of roles. A brief historical sketch of role-play is given in this paper. This paper focuses on the need of role play as an instructive method which serves as a multi-skill developing weapon where the students not only develop a broader perspective about a task
or new role but also the horizon of understanding others behavior resulting into empathy, team
work, better communication, interpersonal skills and management development.
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— 87.00 Кб (Скачать файл)There are many good reasons for using role-plays in class:
- role-plays help students cope with real-life situations, commonly used expressions, forcing them to think “on their feet”;
- role-plays help students work together as a team or group, and communicate in order to understand each other, because role-plays are not simple acts of reading or reproduction the information from a piece of paper;
- role-plays can be adapted to the needs of the students, they may use specific vocabulary for specific situations, as learning English is sometimes done for a specific purpose;
- role-plays give learners more responsibility in their learning, encouraging interaction;
- role-plays offer students the chance to evaluate their learning progress and their level of English.
Role-plays in general tend to have some common characteristics: they are usually spoken,... [continues]