Febriyanti Ramadhani-A1B215009
Name : Febriyanti Ramadhani
NIM : A1B215009
The Influence of
Role Play in Speaking Class in Giving Direction
ABSTRACT
In this paper will explain about the influence of role play in speaking
class, especially in giving direction material. Role play is one technique that
often use in speaking because the student do teachers’ command spontaneously.
There are many techniques that usually use in speaking, but the researcher will
focus on role play technique.
Key words : Role Play, Speaking and Giving Direction Material
INTRODUCTION
Speaking is the one
of important part from four basic skills in English because speaking has big
role in communication. According to Widdowson in Bahraeni
(2003:1), “act of communication through as a part of dialogue, or rather forms
of verbal exchange interaction involve two peoples, one listener, and other
direct or indirect respond”. According to
Brumfit and Johnson (1983),“the difficulty is the ability to compose sentences
is not the only ability that we need to communicate. Communication only
takes place when we make use of
sentences to perform a variety of different acts essentially”.
In teaching English, the technique that
will be used must appropriate with the level of the student. Then, the teacher
needs to have a good technique in teaching, because it will influence students’
success in learning. So that, the teacher of English may select whether it
is a suitable technique or no for the student.
Role
Playing is a good technique, and useful for the student, because it emphasizes to the “real-world side
of science”. It means, role playing gives student many opportunities in
learning English.
There
are some students in English department felt nervous when they were perform
a role play in front of the class. It
means, this technique has a big impact to the student’s comprehension in
speaking.
From
the background above, the researcher interested in look at how the influence of
role playing technique in speaking class affects to the student, especially in
giving direction material.
BODY
Definitions of Role
Play
Based on Brown (2001), "role-play minimally
involves giving a role to one or more members of a group, and assigning an
objective or purpose that participants must accomplish." Brown recommended
if role play can be conducted with a single person, whether it is in pairs or
in groups, with every person assigned a role to accomplish an objective. (p.
183).
Keneth (2008)
defines that role play can be defined as the type of student’s behaves in a
certain context. In the field of managing, the differencess in identifying role
play that can be seen as a role conflict which does not match for a person or
by others role playing as a method of teaching which is aware in practicing and
discussion of the role in a group. While in the class, the difficulty can be
happen so that the student can identify with the roles.
Huang (2008) mention six major steps in the procedure for
the role play activities in the class, those are:
1. Decide the material
Before the lesson begin, teacher needs to decide the
material for the student. The material that teacher gives can be taken from
text books or non-textbook teaching materials, such as story books, movies,
pictures, and so on. Beside that, the teacher also can create his or her own
authentic teaching materials for role play activities. The teaching material
must appropriate with the level of the students and their interest.
2. Select the situation and create the dialogue
The teacher will select the situation, then the student
creates the dialogue by themselves according to the situation.
3. Teach the dialogue for role playing
The teacher must teach vocabulary, dialogs, and sentence
that important for the role play activities. Then, make sure that students can
use vocabulary correctly based on the context. It means, teacher should allow students to ask how to say the
words that they want to say.
4. Students need practice the role play
Students can practice in a group or pairs. After they
have played their own roles in a few times, given them exchange roles. It helps
student to know how if they were in a different role and they will get new
experience while they were performing.
5. Students modify the situations and dialogs
When the students have finished and become familiar
with an original role play situation, they can modify the situations by their
ownselves or dialogues to create a variation of the original role play.
6. Checking and evaluating students’ comprehension
At the end of the class, the teacher will evaluate the
effectiveness of the role play activities and check the students’ understanding
in using the right vocabulary, sentences, and dialogues. There are several ways
to do student evaluation. Students can be given oral, or listening tests
relating to the role plays. Here are the examples of oral tests:
-Teacher asks the student to answer some simple questions relating to the
role plays
-Teacher asks the student to reenact the role plays
-Teacher asks the student to translate the role plays into their native
language
Speaking
Kayi (2006)
defines that speaking points to
the gap between
linguistic expertise and teaching methodology. Linguistic
expertise concerns with language content and the structure of the language. Speaking
needs habit formation because it is a real communication and speaking is a
productive skill. It means, speaking needs to practice as often as possible in the daily of life.
Based on Chaney,
1998, p. 13, speaking is
"the process of building and sharing meaning by using of verbal and non-verbal symbols, in
many contexts". Speaking is also give peoples’ understanding about what
people said. While as according to Brown,1994; Burns & Joyce, 1997 speaking
is an interactive process of
constructing meaning that
involves producing, receiving,
and processing information.
CONCLUSION AND
SUGGESTION
Conclusion
In conclusion,
using role play technique in giving direction material in speaking class
is influencing the student in many
aspects. For example; students’ confident, students’ understanding, and
students’ mastery of vocabulary that has been given by the teacher, etc. It
means, role play technique has a big role in speaking, especially in giving
direction material. Giving direction is the important part when learning
English because it related to the daily activities in life. So, it is really
useful for the student.
Beside that, this
technique affected to the students’ performance in speaking because they
perform it in front of the class spontaneously. When the student was
performing, other student would attention to them. It means, not only the
teacher, students’ friend in that class also can correct the mistake when they
perform.
Suggestion
The suggestion for
the next study is the researcher find the lack of role playing as a classroom
technique, so role play can develop to be better. Then, role play technique can
being the effectiveness in learning English especially in speaking class.
REFERENCES
Brown, H.
Douglas. 2007. Teaching by Principle, an Interactive Approach to Language
Brown, H.D. (1994). Principles of Language Learning and
Teaching. N.J.:Prentice Hall Regents.
Kreb,M. Dean. 2017.
The Effectiveness of Role Play Techniques in Teaching Speaking for EFL College
Student. Vol 8.
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