3. The Advantages of Role Play
There are some advantages for teaching speaking by using role play in the class, they are:
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a. With role play a very wide variety of experience can be brought into the classroom and we can train our students in speaking skill in any
situations through role play. b. Role play puts students in situation in which they are required to use
and develop those phatic forms of language which are so necessary in oiling the works of social relationships, but which are so often neglected
by our language teaching syllabuses. c. Some people are learning English to prepare for specific roles in their
lives. It is helpful for these students to have tried out and experimented with the language they will require in the friendly and safe environment
of a classroom. d. Role play helps many shy students by providing them with a mask.
e. Perhaps the most important reason for using role play is that it is fun. f. The students can use body language automatically in the conversation.
Moreover, Sarah Lynne Bowman states role play gives students a chance to use the language they have practiced in a more creative way students
improvise; it increases motivation because the chance to imagine different situations adds interest to a lesson; it encourages students to use natural
expressions and intonation, as well as gestures because they are acting out a situation, and by doing children even teenagers and adults often imagine
themselves in deferent situation and roles when they play games.
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In conclusion, role play can encourage students to create their performance as well as possible due to the freedom given to them to make up a
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Gillian Porter Ladousse , Ibid, p. 6-7
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Sarah Lynne Bowman, The Function of Role-Playing Games, Britain: Mc Farland Company, Inc Publisher, 2010, p. 49-50
dialogueconversation by themselves. Therefore, most students are motivated to share and express their ideas during the activity.
4. The Disadvantages of Role Play
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