efl teacher's and learners attitudes towards using the role playing technique in developing

Abstract

Speaking is one of the most challenging and troublesome skills in our schools. Due to the difficulties of this skill, our pupils find it difficult to master all the aspects of speaking and use them appropriately in different social contexts. Therefore, they do not perform acceptable tasks. It is our belief that the problem is the result of lack of efficient strategies. The present study aimed at shedding the light on communication in classroom; acting role-plays as a good model for bringing real-life situations into classroom and promoting students self-confidence through expressing their ideas during the practice of role plays activities. Accordingly, we believe that using roleplays activities in the classroom make pupils of high school feel interesting to speak English and communicate effectively in different social situations. In attempting to raise the teachers` and pupils` awareness about Role plays, we have directed a questionnaires to second year pupils at Karkoubia Khalifa high school and all the teachers of English to investigate their attitudes towards using Role plays technique .The results from the analysis of those questionnaire have confirmed the research hypothesis and have shown that teachers and learners hold favorable attitudes towards using Role play techniques. Thus, we recommend the using of different techniques such as Role play, discussions, simulation activities in teaching speaking to develop pupils` speaking skill.