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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.
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]
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