dialogueconversation by themselves. Therefore, most students are motivated to share and express their ideas during the activity.
4. The Disadvantages of Role Play
In spite of the fact that role play gives some advantages, there are also shows disadvantages. They are:
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a. Organization, teachers operate in ideal circumstance. The majority
work in classrooms which are too small, and with classes which are, numerically, too large. Similarly, the noise level produced by a class of
forty, divided into eight role play groups in a small classroom, may be so high as to make concentration impossible.
b. Time, if the time taken for preparation and follow-up work is included,
then role play will take up a lot of classroom time.
In conclusion, teaching speaking by using role play takes up a lot of classroom time because the students need for preparation before their play a role.
It ’s also need an extra room, because if the room is too small the students can’t
move in play their role, and it’s can make a noisy in the room, so it’s very difficult for the students to concentrate.
6. The Type of Role Play Technique
In case of role play activities, according to Donn Byrne, role play can be grouped into two types, scripted and unscripted role play. In details, those types of
role play activities described as follows:
a. Scripted Role Play This type involves interpreting either the textbook dialogue or
reading text in the form of speech. The main function of the text after all is to convey the meaning of language items in a memorably way.
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Carol Livingstone, Role Play in Langauge Learning,Burnt Mill: Longman Group Limited, 1983, p.30
b. Unscripted Role Play In contrast to scripted role play, the situations of unscripted role
play do not depend on textbooks. It is known as a free role play or improvisation. The students themselves have to decide what language to
use and how the conversation should develop. In order to do this activity, good preparation from teacher and students is really necessary.
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7. Teaching Speaking by using role play
As what the writer writes above, role play can be classified into two; scripted role play and unscripted role play. So, in applying this technique, there
are two ways that can be used.
A.
Scripted role play
Scripted role play is a role play which is based on the dialogue. Example of the dialogue:
Angela : Good morning. I want to send a letter to Malaysia.
Clerk : Yes, do you want to send it by air mail or ordinary
mail? Angela
: I think I’ll send it air mail. I want it to get there quickly.
How much does it cost? Clerk
: To Malaysia? That will be 30.000 rupiah, please. Angela
: give the clerk 50.000 rupiah Here you are. Clerk
: Here’s your stamp, and here’s 20.000 rupiah change.
Angela : Thank you. Where is the post box?
Clerk : You want the air mail box. It’s over there, by the
door.
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Lynne Cameron, Teaching Language to Young Learners , Britain : Cambridge University Pres, 2001, P 37
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