Improvement of Speaking Skills: Role Play.

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Improvement of English Speaking Skills through Role Paly Technique Chapter 1 1. Introduction English is undoubtedly the most popular and essential language in the world. Since the technology revolution, everyone has been using English as a communication medium. There are very few people who are unfamiliar with English nowadays. About all the countries in the world have focus on English as communication language because it has taken shape of universal communication medium! Almost all the people from many different countries around the world use it for communication. English has been always interesting mainly because of its importance to traders from all over the world. Nowadays, you cannot imagine traveling international without knowledge of English language. A person is judged by its language capabilities and English is the prime language for communication. Nowadays the target of English teachers has shifted from teaching about English language to teaching the English language, reason is because of practical nature of the subject and nowadays speaking skills are being highlighted more than any other part of skill set in English language. The shift of focus is now on development of communicative abilities and how to polish them to match international level of English communication. Communicative skills of any language consist of four basic parts i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing. All these parts should be well polished of a person if he wants to communicate on international level. The reading and listening are categorized under receptive skills whereas productive skills hold speaking and writing in its categories. Whatever oral or written, these skills should be well constructed . The topic of this research revolves around speaking skills and how to improve them. What are the basic focus areas that can improve speaking skills as they are the most important skill required in daily life and without speaking skills, English language skills of a person will be valued as null.

Page 1

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Speaking skills of any language cannot be learned through use of grammatical rules, subject position and sentence structure or any rules but it requires more of practice and encounters of communication in daily life. One may improve writing skills through reading and learning of sentence structure but without practice one cannot speak properly hence failure to communicate will every time an inexperienced person will try to communicate. There are several ways to improve learners speaking abilities such as you can put learner in such condition where he has to communicate using English only. Classroom can be a great example of learning by activities as teacher can ask students to communicate in English only and by introducing activities that require participation of students and enhances the speaking skills of all the students. Interaction is the key to speaking skills and most essential activity in classroom activity, the problem we face nowadays is that teachers don’t interact much with students instead they give activities to students and assign CR’s to take care of these assignments. It is without a doubt that teachers play crucial part in development of student’s speaking skills. A teacher can enhance speaking skills of students by assigning them role plays and dialogs according to the level of students. The activities should include vocabulary, pronunciations and sentence structure as it helps in development of language skills of students. Objective of Study Taking other discussions in consideration regarding speaking skills and language development, Role play has proven to be most effective in speaking skill development. Method of Study Quantitate method is being used in this method of study as language skills are topic of study, the search is taken from both library and field and is carefully organized, studied and analyzed in order to gain clear result of language skills development. Questionnaire method and student’s opinion was directly asked to collect primary data about the subject.

Page 2

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Chapter 2: 1. Speaking 1.1 Definition of Speaking Speaking can be defined as communication of opinions, expressions, feelings, ideas etc. through mouth. Speaking has been defined in different words by different writers as according to Chaney, it is process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols. While another expert, Theodore Huebner said language is essentially Speech and speech is basically communication by sounds. And according to him, speaking is a skill used by someone in daily life communication whether at school or outside. The skill is acquired by much repetition; it primarily a neuromuscular and not an intellectual process. It consists of competence in sending and receiving messages. From the above definition, it can be inferred that speaking is expressing ideas, opinions, or feelings to others by using words or sounds of articulation in order to inform, to persuade, and to entertain that can be learnt by using some teaching ñ learning methodologies. 1.2 Importance of speaking skills

Speaking is the most essential and common form of communication even if you are illiterate, you will have to speak and that makes it the most difficult communication skill as a teacher has to teach speaking skills to every kind of person, some will be liberate and others will be modernly educated. It is the most productive skill in oral mode. Speaking in other language after a period of time becomes hard for students. Speaking also requires attentive hearing skills and Page 3

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique person must be able to respond quickly for better understanding. In reading and writing, there’s no barrier between reality and fantasy but in speaking, you have to respond to real time event and if language is not primary, you will have problem in converting the secondary language into primary and then responding to it. Speaking is also a careful process as you have to be careful with words otherwise you can’t edit it once spoken. Good communication skills are determined by placing speaking skills on first and in country like Pakistan where there are about 18 different languages in four provinces, English is the most important and essential language of all. All the paperwork is done in English language, student’s exams are preferred to be taken and checked in English language, status of a person is judged by how well he communicates in English and all the trade, Information Technology System and commerce industry relies on system developed in English language. Speaking and speech skills are further divided into transactional speech and interactional speech. By transactional speech A good communication skill is the foremost thing everywhere. There are two main purposes of speaking interactional speech and transactional speech. Interactional speech is communicating with someone for social purposes, while transactional speech is for business purposes in exchange of goods and services etc. Speaking skill is necessary for learners in both cases. They have to speak in social relationships as well as in the careers, so to improve their speaking. There are many classroom activities which would help them to improve their speaking skills. 1.3 Teaching Speaking Speaking is the most important part of language learning and teaching. It has been undervalued in previous years as scope of English in those days was narrow than it is now. Nowadays speaking is valued more than learning, reading or writing skills and teachers have to change their methods to fit the requirements. 1.4 What is Teaching Speaking? Page 4

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique What is meant by teaching speaking is to teach English language learners to: a. Learn how to produce the speech sounds and sounds patterns in English language. b. Teach them how to select appropriate words and sentences according to social requirements c. How to learn and channel their thoughts in a logical sequence d. How to be expressive in English language and how to channelize it properly.

1.5 How to Teach Speaking? Teaching young learners is the most crucial job in society as they are hungry for education and will absorb everything that comes in their way, you have to choose the most appropriate way to address every type of youth as every learner will not be from same background and it is essential that your teaching matches their level of understanding. You will have to choose those activities that will helpful for you in addressing the whole class in a single way. Young learners are like sponges, they soak up everything we say and how we say it and that’s why teacher has to carefully choose its every speech and make students learn everything in way that stays in their brain for long time and is of correct pronunciation and of correct grammar. Teacher can gain ideal learning environment with the help of mixed activities, such as dialogues, choral revision, chants, songs, poems and rhymes. When applying the above-mentioned tools into the teaching practice, what should be kept in mind is that interaction is an important way of learning. Therefore, increased oral emphasis should be included in our teaching to give the students as much speaking time as possible. Now many linguistics and English as second language, teachers agree on that students learn to speak in the second language by "interacting". Communicative language teaching and collaborative learning serve best for this aim. Communicative language teaching is based on real life situations Page 5

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique that require communication. By using this method in classes, students will have the opportunity of communicating with each other in the target language. In brief, teachers should create a classroom environment where students have real-life communication, authentic activities, and meaningful tasks that promote oral language. This can occur when students collaborate in groups to achieve a goal or to complete a task.

1.6 Identification, Limitation and Formulation of Problem a. Identification of Problem There are many problems of language teaching that can be identified as research subjects. In this case, I would like to discuss about: 1. 2. 3.

What is speaking? What is role play? What are the problems encountered by students in practicing speaking?

b. Limitation of Problem To clarify the problem, I have tried to find a solution to limit those problems in the use of role play activities in teaching speaking, the basic concept of speaking, some types and procedures in using role play. c. Formulation of Problem Are the scores of speaking taught by using role play better or not?

2. Activities to improve speaking skills a. Discussions

Page 6

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

b.

c.

d.

e.

A teacher should keep a discussion at the end of the lesson. In the discussion Teachers should get every student involved in giving his opinion, ideas and experience about the lesson. Before starting of discussion, teacher should set a purpose of discussion and then ask his students to comment upon the topic. It will keep the student busy in thinking that what they should say about the topic or lesson and in this way they will avail their time in beneficial activity instead of chatting with each other. Simulations Simulations are more interesting activities than others as in this activity student perform roles in a more realistic way, for example if they are going to perform a role of doctor they will bring a stethoscope with them and pretend like a doctor. They create a realistic environment and participate more enthusiastically. Information Gap Information gay is kind of activity where students are supposed to be working in pairs, they will have information piece that is different from each other and they will have to share the information with one another. Information gap is a group activity and increases sportsman spirit along with other functionalities. Brain Storming Brain storming works in way that student is given a piece of word or product and he has to produce ideas in limited time and model them accordingly, they can vary from classroom ideas to mechanical projects to library ideas. It helps in critical thinking and decision making as well as enhancement in analyzing abilities and explaining abilities of a student. Storytelling Storytelling has been one of the most important part of rural life in past but it is best way to enhance speaking skills of students, teacher can ask student to tell everyone his favorite story or short story, can alternatively ask them to write a story and ask them to read it. It will be a great experience for both teacher and student as teacher will be able to learn how the student thinks and student will be able to give life to his imagination and later explain his ideas to everyone. Story completion Page 7

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Story completion is harder than story telling as one has to take half story and complete it in his words, it requires higher brainstorming and this activity involves class participation and will increase speaking and learning skills of students without a doubt. f. Reporting This activity is quite simple but enhances the class participation and can connect a lot of students with reading capabilities. Teacher can ask his students to make a small report on daily newspaper headline and read that in front of everyone. It will ensure class participation and will make the whole class attentive. g. Picture narrating Picture narrating is like storytelling but you are provided with story in form of picture and you have to explain it to audience, this activity is essential for those who want to increase their speaking skills in terms of daily interaction as you have to narrate the whole picture/picture set. h. Picture describing This activity enhances public speaking skills as every group is provided with a picture and one has to describe the whole picture to the whole class on basics of their observation. i. Find the differences Two pictures of same scenario are given to every group and are asked to find differences among them, this activity allows participation on bigger level as every group has to interact with each other to find differences. j. Role plays Role plays are comparatively more interesting and beneficial activities in improving speaking skills. In role plays students usually take more interest as in role play activity they wear the mask of that person or role they are performing. In this way they overcome their hesitation and feel more confident. k. Interviews A teacher can conduct such activity in classroom where every student gets the chance to think and speak. As in interviews, one student acts as an interviewer and the other as interviewee. Both of them will take their time to make questions and give appropriate answers respectively. In this way they Page 8

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique can improve their vocabulary and after activity they will get guidance corrections of their mistakes by the teacher. It will of great help in improving speaking skills.

Role Play 1. Definition Role Play In Cambridge International Dictionary of English, role defined as the person whom an actor represents in a film or play, while role play is a method of acting out particular ways of behaving or pretending to be other people who deal with new situations. It is used in training courses language learning and psychotherapy ((Ed), 1995). In this case, Gillian Porter Ladousse illustrated that when students assume a role, they play a part (either their own or somebody else’s) in specific situation. Play describes that it was taken out in a safe environment and students were inventive and playful as possible (Ladusse, 1995). The role play has been defined in many terms, for oxford, it has been interchangeably used in terms for simulation, role play simulation and role play game. Simulations are inflexible, lengthy and complex as compared to roleplays. Role plays are relatively simple and organized events and highly flexible with high initiative purpose and imagination behind them. In defining role play, Donn Byrne gave comments that role play is a part of drama activity. In details, he described that there are three terms to cover the drama activities. They are mime (mimicry-memorization), role play and simulation. He distinguished the terms as follows: a. Mime, the participants perform actions without using words (although as we shall see, this activity leads naturally on to talk) b. Role play, the participant interact either as themselves in imaginary situations Page 9

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique c. Simulation, this involves role play as defined above. However, for this activity the participants normally discuss a problem of some kind with some setting that has been defined for them. Both role play and simulation are commonly used in foreign language classes to facilitate communicative competence. Whereas mime seems more appropriate as a language game. It is performing actions without using words. For instance, if someone mimes and action, the others try to guess what it is. Another definition is stated by Joanna Budden in British Council Teaching English (BBC) on her article with the title role Play. She said that role-play is any speaking activity when you either put yourself into somebody else's shoes, or when you stay in your own shoes but put yourself into an imaginary situation. What is meant by imaginary people is that students can become anyone they like for a short time. The President, the Queen, a millionaire, a pop star, the choice is endless. Students can also take on the opinions of someone else. 'For and against' debates can be used and the class can be split into those who are expressing views in favor and those who are against theme. Functional language for a multitude of scenarios can be activated and practiced through role play in imaginary situations. 'At the restaurant', 'Checking in at the airport', 'Looking for lost property' are all possible role-plays. From those explanation above, I believe that role play is a technique which involves fantasy or imagination to be someone else or to be ourselves in a specific situation for a while, improvising dialogue and creating a real world in scenario. It aims at the students to encourage thinking and creativity, lets students develop and practice new language and behavioral skills in a relatively non-threatening setting, and can create the motivation and involvement necessary for learning to occur. Role play can improve learners speaking skills in any situation. It is beneficial for learner as it motivates them and helps them to overcome their shyness to Page 10

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique communicate in language. Moreover it is a wide range activity as learners are not limited to specific classroom environment but they can play any role of their choice in this way. They will learn more and they will be able to improve their speaking skills. In learning speaking skills, the students face some problems like their native language causes some difficulty to use second language. It’s the main reason that learner are too afraid and shy in taking part in conversation in second language. Role play has been proved beneficial in past as well, so I am going to elaborate it more through my thesis by using role play method in improving of speaking skills. In all these activities while learners are performing, teachers have the role of monitor. Teacher should monitor carefully and note the mistakes but don’t interrupt the learners during activity instead they should correct the mistakes at the end of the activity as it will decrease their confidence If they would interrupted. Secondly teacher should try to involve each and every student in activities and he/she should indicate positive expressions while learners are performing. It will increase their self-confidence and enthusiasm in activity. Moreover, teachers should keep noticing their class during whole activity and make sure that all students are participating and going well and providing them a frank and helping environment so that they could express their feelings and ideas without any fear and hesitation. In this way they could express their problems they are facing during speaking a target language. 2. Types and Procedures in Role Play In view of the persons taking an actor, Gillian explained that there are several types of role. The first is the roles which correspond to a real need in the students’ lives. In this category, it involves such roles as doctors dealing with patients, or salesman traveling abroad. The second type of role is the students play themselves in a variety of situations which may or may not have direct experience. The example which include in this category is a customer complaining or a passenger asking for information. The third type is the type that few students will ever experience directly themselves, but it is easy Page 11

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique to play because the teachers have such vast indirect experience of them. The television journalist is a good example of this type and it is very useful kind of role taken from real life. The last type is fantasy roles, which are fictitious, imaginary, and possible even absurd. In case of role play activities, according to Donn Byrne, role play can be grouped into two forms, scripted and unscripted role play. In details, those types of role play activities described as follows: 2.1 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. To demonstrate a role play activity based on the dialogue, the procedures given are as fallow: a. First, the teacher guides the role play by writing these prompts: (Where? / How much? / thanks). Talk as you write to show what the prompts mean. b. If necessary, go through the prompts one by one, and get students to give sentences or question for each one Based on these procedures, the writer views that the ways of organizing this dialogue can be carried out into pairs of students who would improvise a conversation in front of class, in turns. The teacher can also ask the students to practice the conversation privately with their partners before they act it out in front of the class. 2.2 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. Preparations from both students and teachers are necessary in order to complete this activity and to gain maximum satisfaction.

Page 12

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

3. Importance of RolePlay in Teacher’s Speaking Role-play is one of the essential activities to promote speaking skills, it is through role-play that student learns how to express different kinds of ideas, opinions and feelings It is explained by Larsen Freeman that in communicative approach, role plays are important, they give learners an opportunity to practice communication in different social contexts and different social roles. Role play has higher scope for variation and imagination. According to Ladousse, role play exploits different communicate methods and allows student to develop the speaking skills as well as polishes learning skills in students, it also increases interaction between students/participants and increases motivation. Role play can improve learners speaking skills in any situation, and helps learners to interact. As for the shy learners, role play helps by providing a mask, where learners with difficulty in conversation are liberated. In addition, it is fun and most learners will agree that enjoyment leads to better learning.

Page 13

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Chapter 3 Literature review Fog (2001) states of a college professor, who experienced that his history classes were not absorbing the students and were much wearisome. He detected that students were much more attracted to the material considering role-play type game for one semester. Role-play, as a teaching strategy, offers several benefits for both teacher and student. First, student curiosity in the subject is elevated. Research has shown that “integrating experiential learning activities in the classroom increases interest in the subject matter and understanding of course content” (Poor man, 2002, pg. 32). Secondly, there is amplified participation on the part of the students in a roleplaying lesson. Students are keen and are taking an active part rather than inactive receivers of the instructor’s knowledge. Poorman (2002) observes that “true learning cannot take place when students are passive observers of the teaching process”. One student at Barnard College who was enrolled in a role-playing history class said, “This class tricks you into doing so much work” (Fogg, 2001). The result of the involvement is amplified learning (Fogg, 2001). A third benefit of using roleplaying as a teaching strategy is that it teaches empathy and understanding of different perspectives (Poorman, 2002). A student taking on a role of a character is a typical activity, which requires a typical setting for learning and acting as that individual. Poorman (2002) found “a significant increase among students in feeling

Page 14

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique another’s distress as their own” (pg. 34). Role-play technique plays a vital role and is much successful in diminishing racial prejudice (McGregor, 1993). Those learners develop greater understanding and come away with an advance idea of the experience than they would in a typical lecture setting who role-play the part of yoked African Americans in a class on pre-Civil War history (Steindorf, 2001). A character known in everyday life is represented and experienced by the student in role-playing (Scarcella and Oxford, 1992). The use of role-playing stresses personal concerns, problems, behavior, and active participation (Silver & Silver, 1989). It enhances interpersonal skills (Teahan, 1975), improves communication skills (Huyack, 1975), and enhances communication (Ettkin & Snyder, 1972). The role-playing methodology can be used in a variety of settings, including the classroom. The notion behind role-playing is that the student supposes a particular persona of a different person, such as a historical character. According to Jones (1982), students “must accept the duties and responsibilities of their roles and functions, and do the best they can in the situation in which they find themselves.” One possible use of role-playing might be to announce a subject matter, using the students’ contextual knowledge to familiarize and fascinate them in a new piece of study (Lloyd, 1998). But possibly more often, role-playing is used as a plan in which students use their background knowledge in addition to acquiring new material about the character in order to better play the role (Lloyd, 1998). When new knowledge is initiated, trained teachers generally use skits, plays, newscasts, and other forms of drama to encourage students. Role playing activities can be divided into four stages (Cherif & Somervill, 1998): 1 2 3 4

the teacher prepares and explains the activity The student prepare the activity The role-playing The discussion or questioning after the role-play activity.

Educational advantages of role play are given by Mark Sutcliffe who is faculty in the University of the West of England and are stated under as

Page 15

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique  Role play encourages individuals to ponder upon their knowledge, actually role play is one of the most essential course as it allows student to develop its capabilities and communication skills on the go.  The role playing makes it mandatory for student to use selective thoughts according to their role and allows a student to have diverse information on different subjects. It allows them to explore both possibilities and engages them in critical thinking.  Role playing also helps in concept building as the role playing gets better, the concepts become clearer to participant. Participation in role playing can increase capabilities of student and may be helpful in overall mental learning. It gives life and immediacy to academic material that can be largely descriptive and/or theoretical.  It can urge a student to have compassion with the place and feelings of others—something that, in the normal process of teaching, is likely to be lost. Role-playing goes by many names: acting, improvisation, dramatic play, pretend play, socio-drama, etc. With a small child the act of role-play itself helps them learn social values and how to perform tasks normally performed for them. Role-play helps children reach outside their world and embrace the feelings, emotions and plights of others. It is widely used in the lower grades to help children explore the world around them. Students encompass their knowledge of a subject by researching a character within a given course of study, when role-play is used in a school setting. Student’s interest is constructed in subject matter, thus breeding interest within the subject (Poorman, 2002). Students become active participants in their education rather than passive observers. It allows students to feel empathy for others when depicting a character involved in turbulent times in history (Steindorf, 2001).

Page 16

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Chapter 4 Data analysis Researcher taught a 50 student’s class at BS level dividing them in two groups of 25 students each. The first group was taught by the conventional method of teaching that included textbook reading or asking one student to read from textbook and others to listen. The method showed that students who were given textbooks to read from, failed in real life speaking and couldn’t communicate when exposed to real life conditions .it shows how our conventional teaching method is making student’s parasites who are totally dependent on their teachers who use spoon feed method. On the other hand second group was taught by role playing activity. To improve vocabulary, speaking and pronunciation of student, researchers used scripted role plays. The main purposes of the activity was to focus on student’s fluency during speaking. Fluency is described by scrivener (2005,160-162) as the process of improving speaking in which a competent speaker helps a less competent speaker.as it’s all about correction of student’s mistakes so the role of teacher is significant during the activity.to get fluency in student’s speaking teacher has to concentrate on their mistakes and devote time to correct their mistakes. Researcher kept on noticing the student’s mistakes carefully and instead of interfering during the activity she corrected their mistakes at the end using white board so that all of them should know their mistakes as well as they could learn from other’s mistakes.

Page 17

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Researcher gave them certain role playing activities and evaluated the results.

Activity 1: Level: BS level students Objective: to motivate students in fluent speaking and sharing their opinions. Researcher asked students to imagine its their first day at their college. they have to get themselves introduced to their new fellows and take their introduction as well. Researcher provided them with some of the vocabulary they have to use in their conversation. Researcher wrote these words on whiteboard(name,background,previous exam’s marks,reasons for chosing this college)students used this vocabulary and conversed with their fellows.

A: Hi good morning! B: hello good morning. A: it’s your first day at college? B: yes I came today. What about you? A: mine too. B: what are your subjects? Medical or engineering? A: I am going to study engineering; I have always been good at mathematics so I choose to study mathematics further. I think I can perform better in engineering. Page 18

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique B: nice to know it. A: what are you going to study? B: well I was interested in medical but my parents want me to study engineering. I was never good at mathematics but they think I should study engineering as in this area there are more opportunities than medical. A: oh it’s not good, if you are not interested in studying engineering you should go for medical because you will do much better in subjects of your own interest. B: I want to….but how should I convince my parents? They will never understand my problem.. A: ah I think you should make them understand in a respected way that you can’t study engineering. They are your parents after all they will understand your problem. I have heard that within time of one month a student can change his subjects. You should change your subjects to medical as its field of your interest. B: thanks for giving me the information. I will tell my parents today I hope they will permit me to study medical as I have brought excellent marks in medical subjects in my higher secondary school exam as well. A: godson now I have to go for my first class. See you soon. B: see you, bye. According to researcher’s knowledge the main impact and effect of role play on speaking skills included pronunciation, listening, vocabulary and grammar use. Pronunciation helps in improving speaking skills .students have problems in pronunciation as they do not use to communicate in English. Role play also helped them in their vocabulary, without sufficient vocabulary communication is not possible. Good vocabulary helps in fluency of speaking skills. Grammar is the basic tool for speaking another language, students got much improvement in their use of correct grammar in their communication as teacher or researcher was putting special attention to their communication during activity.

Page 19

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique The researcher used questionnaire method for collection of data: Students filled 15 different questions related to the effectiveness of role play method in improvement of speaking skills.50 students who were taught by researcher filled this questionnaire at BS level in Islamia College Peshawar. The researcher observed that role play is very effective method. The questionnaires of researcher were based on following main questions: The aims of setting questionnaires were: 1. Significance of role play method in improvement of speaking skills. 2. Teacher’s role during classroom activity 3. Effect of role play on their learning about target language (grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary etc.).

Page 20

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Q no 1: did u find role play effective than other traditional methods of teaching? Options

responses

Agree

35

Disagree

5

Neutral

10

Discussion: purpose of this question was to know whether students liked role play method as compared to other traditional ways of teaching that focus on cramming rather than making students able to speak in that language by themselves. Majority of the students opined that they are contented by role play method. This shows the effectiveness of role play.

Page 21

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Q no 2: Did role play helped you in improvement of speaking English ? Options

responses

Agree

30

Disagree

10

Neutral

10

Discussion: Purposes of this question were to know whether students got any improvement in their English speaking or not after role playing activity. Most of the students replied positively which shows that role play is beneficial for learners.

Page 22

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Q no 3:

Q no 3:is role play effective in improving your confidence level? Options

responses

Agree

45

Disagree

0

Neutral

5

Disscussions Purposs of this question was to know how much have students improved their confidence through role play method.it was significant method to improve their confidence as they were unable to speak before role play because they were not given the chance to speak in classroom.results of this question shows that it was 90% effective.

Page 23

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Q no 4:do you find any improvement in your vocabulary after role play? Options

responses

Agree

40

Disagree

3

Neutral

7

Discussions Purpose of asking this question was to know wether students have got improvement in their vocabulary or not.while teaching in traditional way they were not exposed to speaking and asking for vocabulary to their teacher but in role play they were provided with the essential vocabulary to use in role play so they get many new vocabulary to learn.results show that majorty of them gave positive responses.

Page 24

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique

Q no 5: did you find it more interesting as compared to other methods of teaching speaking? Options

responses

Agree

45

Disagree

2

Neutral

3

Discussions Purpose of this question was to know that which method according to student’s point of view is more accurate to teach speaking.so most of the students opined Page 25

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique that role play is more effective as they got chances to speak as much as they want.hence they got chances to improve their weak areas in speaking English.

Q no 6: does your teacher help you in improving your speaking skills and your other problems during role play and after it? Options

responses

Agree

30

Disagree

15

Neutral

5

Discussions Page 26

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Purpose of this question was to know the role of teacher in student’s improvement of speaking skills. Students need help of the teacher in speaking a second language in vocabulary pronunciations etc.results shows that 60% students agreed to the questions but many students were not satisfied with the role of their teacher,it means teachers should give more time to their students for speaking and correct their mistakes as well as help them in improving their vocabulary and pronunciations.

Q no 7:did role play helped you in improvement of your grammar? Options

responses

Agree

37

Disagree

0

Neutral

13

Discussions Page 27

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Aim of this most important question was to know that did role play has fulfilled this purpose of improving grammar,as it is the base of learning a second language and a person can only learn grammar in better way by communicating in that language so does the role play activity.most of the students responed positively.

Q no 8:do u use English language in your classroom to communicate? Options

responses

Agree

0

Disagree

50

Neutral

0

Discussions Page 28

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Aim of this question was to know that if teachers make their students to speak English language during class to communicate with each other as its necessary to use target language in classroom before your teacher and other fellows to get improvement in speaking.teacher will correct student’s mistakes but 100% of the students opined negative.it shows that in our educational system teachers do not pay special attention to the student’s speaking it’s the major reason of poor speaking skills.

Q no 9:do your teacher use English language in lecture during class? Options

responses

Agree

25

Disagree

10

Neutral

15

Discussions Page 29

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique It was another very important question because teacher is a role model for his\her students.they will listen their teacher speaking target language and so they will also try to ask questions and their opinions in target language.teacher should impose it on students to speak in target language wether wrong or right it will help them to get over their problems of speaking in target language.results of the students shows that some of the teachers use target language while few of them do not.its common problem of our educational system that we are taught English in our native laguages.

Q no 10: did role play help you in getting fluency? Options

responses

Agree

43

Disagree

0

Neutral

7 Page 30

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Discussions It was the objective of the role playing to make students fluent in English speaking,to make them confident enough so that they could speak without any shyness of being wrong.results shows that this method proved successful in getting fluency in student’s speech.

Q no 11:are you provided with enough time in class for speaking activities? Options

responses

Agree

12

Disagree

36

Neutral

2 Page 31

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Discussions The purpose of this questions was to know if students are given time for communication in target language.most of the teachers just focus on their lecture and after delievering their lecture they do not let their students to speak or say something about topic,it’s the reason that students have poor confidence because they do not speak and do not ask about their quries in that topic.teachers should finish their lecture before ten minutes remaining in ending the class and give their students chance to share their opinions about topic and ask questions.

Q no 12:did you find role play improving your pronunciations? Options

responses

Agree

44

Disagree

0

Neutral

6 Page 32

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Discussions Most of the students have problems in pronouncing different words of second language.in role play activity they get proper supervision by the teacher wherever during their speaking they were mispronouncing any word they get corrected by the teacher it improved their pronunciations.

Q no 13.do you think that role play should be used at every level to improve speaking skills? Options

responses

Agree

47

Disagree

0 Page 33

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Neutral

3

Discussions Researcher asked this question as nothing is learnt without intrest.to know wether students find role play interesting for learning speaking or not.do they learnt well with role playing as its more interesting and they can speak of their own choice whatever they want to.their responses shows that it should be used in even early grades as well as on higher levels in education because practice makes perfect.

Chapter 6: CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION Conclusion: Based on the research, the writer concludes that:

Page 34

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique Based on the research, the writer concludes that: 1. From the result of the analysis of the research, it is proven that the students Score of speaking taught by using role play is better This result has answered The research question that the use of role plays in teaching speaking is quite effective. 2. The use of role play makes the speaking and learning activity more enjoyable and interesting. It’s because role play helps the shy students by providing a mask, where students with difficulty in conversation are liberated. In addition, it is fun and most students will agree that enjoyment leads to better learning. 3. In role play, the world of the classroom is broadened to include the outside world. This offers a much wider range of language opportunities. So, the students can be anyone and in any situation they wish. 4. The use of role play makes the class more active and alive. Students are willing to participate without any forces from the teacher. 5. The use of role play makes the students more motivated in learning and easier to grasp the lesson. 42 6. Problems that the students faced mostly in role play are lack of confidence and lack of vocabulary.

B. Suggestion The success in teaching doesn.t depend on the lesson program only, but more important is how the teacher presents the lesson and uses various techniques to manage the class more lively and enjoyable. Regarding to the teaching speaking by using role play, the writer gives some suggestion for the teacher and Page 35

Improvement of English Speaking Skills Through Role Play Technique students as follow: For the teacher: 1. The teacher should choose the materials that are appropriate and not too difficult for the students. 2. Before assigning the role play to the students, the teacher should make sure that the students have fully understood and have the information they need. 3. The teacher should keep control the students. activities. 4. The teacher should present the language in an enjoyable, relaxed and understandable way. For the students: 1. The students are hoped not to be shy in acting out their role. 2. The students are hoped to be active and creative in enriching their vocabularies. 43 3. The students are hoped to use English when they practice role play activities although it is hard for them. 4. The students should take part much in acting out role play. 5. The students should ask to the teacher if there is something that they don.t Understand regarding to the role play activities.

Page 36