The role of role plays in teaching english

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.