TO ENHANCE THE SPEAKING SKILLS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT THROUGH ROLE PLAY

Abstract

Role Play activities can enhance and develop young learner's speaking and reading skills. Speaking is one of the most important skills that should be developed along with other language skills, but it is also one of the most important skills in the process of socialization and communication. It is an indispensable condition for the development of the ability to pronounce words such as The sample group of 3rd classes graders in the research project included 30 English language learners. One class of the 3rd grade was selected,15 of them were the experimental group, and the other 15 were the control group.For a month,the experimental group was given daily scheduled role-playing sessions and accepted. The main difference between the control and experimental groups was recorded during the repeated tests conducted on all students of the two classes. The experimental group demonstrated a good ability to speak English as a second language. This finding has important teaching implications for ESL.At the end of the study, the students in the role-playing group were found to have made significantly greater gains in their speaking skills than the students in the control group. The role-playing group also reported higher levels of confidence and motivation in their speaking abilities.