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Role Playing in the ESL
Classroom
Why and How to Use it in Your
Classrooom
Role Play
A role play is a
learning activity
in which students
play out roles in a
simulated
situation that
relates to one or
more learning
objectives.
Benefits
 Teaches empathy
 Simulates authentic language
experience
 Provides a memorable learning
experience
 Adaptable for multiple levels
 Increases motivation and self-esteem
 Builds confidence
Role Play Advantages #1
 Role plays encourage student
participation and stimulate thinking.
 They motivate students by involving
them in a realistic situation.
 Role plays help students understand
another person’s perspective or
situation.
Role Play Advantages #2
 Role plays can inform, assess, and
improve a variety of students’ skills
and attitudes (communication and
interpersonal skills needed to
interview, counsel, and treat patients)
 Role plays give students opportunities
to receive feedback on their
performance in a safe setting
What is Role Playing Good For?
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Communication skills
Fluency
Grammar
Reaching the <spontaneity state>
Assessment Tool
Cultural factors
How to use it in your
classroom:some ideas
Listening and Role Play
 Use a short listening
passage/dialogue
 Check for comprehension
 Review grammar,language structures,
pronunciation
 Students practice and personalize
dialogue
 Perform
Reading and Role Play
 Small groups
 Each group given a section of the
reading
 Group discusses main events
 Group creates a dialogue to represent
events
 Performs
 Feedback/questions from class
Video and Role play
 Watch an authentic clip of a target
situation
 Discuss as a class
 Give students a copy of script
 Practice
 Personalize
 Perform
Long-term project
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Groups of 5 to 10
Students write their own script
Edit
Rehearse
Perform for a wider audience
Making Role Playing Successful
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Model
Language support
Have realistic goals
Use realistic scenarios
Use realia and visual aids
Create a Role Play #1
 Decide what the students should
learn (the objective)
 Select an appropriate situation
 Identify the roles
Create a Role Play #2
 Determine if the role play will be:
 Informal – acting it out with little
or preparation time
 Formal – planned in advance with
instructions
 Clinical demonstration – working
with anatomic models and
Create a Role Play #3
 Determine if the students will report the
results of their discussion of the role play in
writing or orally to the entire group.
 In some cases, the role plays are done only
in small groups. Then one or more groups
may present theirs to the large group
and/or the teacher will facilitate a
discussion focusing on the role plays.
Facilitate a Role Play #1
 Explain the nature and purpose of the
exercise (the objectives).
 Define the setting and situation of the
role play.
 Brief the participants on their roles.
Facilitate a Role Play #2
 Explain what the other students should
observe and what kind of feedback they
should give.
 Provide the students with questions or
activities that will help them to focus on the
main concepts being presented.
 Keep the role play brief and to the point.
Facilitate a Role Play #3
 Engage students in a followup
discussion.
 Provide feedback, both positive and
suggestions for improvement.
 Summarize what happened in the
session, what was learned, and how it
applies to the skill being learned.
Conclusion
 Benefits range from increasing empathy
and motivation to providing authentic
experiences with the language
 Can be used to teach grammar as well as
communication skills, fluency and cultural
factors
 Will provide a memorable learning
experience that the students can draw from
to help navigate life outside the classroom
Bibliography
 Celce-Murcia,M.,& Hilles, S. (1988)
Resources in Teaching Grammar. New
York:Oxford University Press
 Maxwell, C.(1997 October) Role –Play and
Language Learning.Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Japan Association of
Language Teachers, Hamamatsu, Japan
 Parrish, B. Teaching Adults ESL: A Practical
Introduction. New York: McGraw-Hill
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