Persuasive Essay

Let’s We Back To The Role Play!

In fact, there are lots of teaching techniques and methods in learning process. All of them have their own strength in teaching process especially in teaching speaking. But not all of techniques are effective in improving students speaking skill. Why does it  happen? It happens because the techniques are not used the interest and pleasure thing in learning process.  One of recommended teaching techniques to implement in teaching speaking is role play. Implementing role play can help us in teaching speaking. Is it true? The answer is true, it is because the technique has the pleasure thing in teaching speaking. There are some benefits that you will get if you implement it in your class. First, you can make your students happy in learning speaking. Then, you will make them brave to speak up in front of their classmates.  Last, you will also improve their verbal and non-verbal communication.

There are many researchers argue that role play has the pleasure element in teaching speaking class.  Jill Hadfield (1986) argues that role playing or role play is a kind of motion games. This kind of method has the purposes, the rule, and at the same time involve an element of pleasure. That’s why if you implement this one, you can make your students happy in mastering speaking skill. It is true because your students will interact and act each other by using English. On the other word, it is also effective in teaching speaking because your students will have fun when they learn it. So, the more fun the methods that you implement in speaking class, the more interest your student about the material that you give. This is correct, isn’t it? 

When you implement role play in your speaking class, believe it or not you will change your students braveness in speaking better. Here is the reason why it is true. When you implement this fun teaching speaking technique, of course you will ask all of your students to speak up in English by considering the fluency and accuracy. Unconsciously, that will practice their speaking, isn’t it? Not only that, they also trainee as mentally. Their mental automatically trained because they should be able to perform in front of their friend. It is not easy, right? That’s will challenge them to become the brave one. So, there is no reason for us not to use this interesting technique.

Do you believe that by using role play you will improve your students verbal and non-verbal communication? You have to believe it, why? The reason is because the technique consist of some rules. First, they should be able to speak up in front of the people without doubt. Automatically, they must deliver the message of the role play dialog by using verbal communication to make the audience get the meaning. Not only that one, by implementing this teaching technique you will also improve your student’s non-verbal communication. Automatically, when they try to delivered the message of the role play by verbal communication, they also use non-verbal like doing some gesture or body language. The purpose is to make their performance interesting and to make their audience understand about the meaning.

       Briefly, to find out the technique that consist the pleasure element is not easy as we thought. But role play has it. There are lots of advantages you will get if you implement it in your speaking class like what I have mentioned above. Again, the more fun teaching technique that you use in your class, the happier your students in learning. So, because of their happiness that will make them easy in mastering the material because they love it.