What
is Role Playing?
In role playing, students act out characters in a
predefined "situation".
Concept of role playing
Role playing is unprepared, unrehearsed dramatization.
Role play is form of acting in which the general role of the players is defined
but they do not have scripts to follow. This situations are played can be short
term or long term.
Role play refers to group of techniques in which
participant are ask to accept a different identify to try to think their way into some else
situation and perhaps into their mind as well.
One might assume Role playing to be ´´ acting´´ on a
stage with script. However that is practically correct it is also wrong, for
the most part. Role playing indeed is a form of acting. Though it doesn’t take
place on any sort of stage and there are no script used. In role playing there are multiple people,
each controlling their own character and acting as a characters. Typically one person will create a storyline
of sort to follow and they all will play out that set storyline adding their
own twists and turn along the way. These character courses have personality,
history, and role in the story. The easiest way to describe Role playing is as
work in progress book that is written together by many people.
Purpose
of Role play.
• Engage
student actively in learning, so that they appreciate the value of
participation, rather than just hoping to learn by absorption.
• Help
students to understand the feeling and attitudes of others by experiencing situations
rather than just hearing or reading about them.
• Provide
students with opportunities to develop a range of communication and social
interaction skill such as listening, speaking act while they interact with
others.
• Develop
students self confident, self esteem and self images.
• Encourage
students to take deep approach to learning.
• Help
student to explore their values and appreciate the consequences of their values
based actions.
• Help
students resolve conflicts that have arisen in the classroom or that they may
have encountered elsewhere.
• Give
students practice at taking action on their own behalf and on behalf of others
in real world situations.
Principles
of instructional role play.
1. Acceptance
of student’s responses
The teacher shall accept all responses in a
no-evaluation manner. For example, a student should have spirit to play the
role of father and mother.
2. Research
and exploration.
This helps students to explore several of problem
situations and compare alternatives views. It helps students to solve the
problems.
3. Feedback.
The teacher shall promote the students awareness of
their own views and feelings by reflecting, summarizing and paraphrasing their
responses.
4. Explanation
of role play
The teacher shall explain the concept of role play
and emphasize that there are different ways to play a role alternative way to
resolve a problem.
Procedural- step in enacting a
role play(1).
1. A
situation for role- play.
To begin with, choose a situation for a role play,
keeping in mind students need‘s to and interest. Teacher should select role
play that will give the student an opportunity to practice what they have
learned. At the same time, we need a role play that interests the students.
They might either suggest themselves that intrigue them or select a topic from
a list of given situations.
2. Role
plays design.
After choosing a context for a role play, the next
step is to come up with ideas on how this situation may develop. Student‘s
level of language proficiency should be taken into consideration. If you feel
that your role play requires more profound linguistic competence than the
students possess, it would probably be better to simplify it or leave until
appropriate. One low intermediate and more advanced levels, role play with the
problem or conflict in them work very well because they motivate the characters
to talk and to build in these problem
let the standard script to go wrong. This will generate tension and make the
role play more interesting.
3. Linguistic
preparation.
Once you have selected suitable role play, predict
the language needed for it. At the same beginning level, the language needed is
almost completely predictable. The higher the level of students the more
difficult it is to prefigure acutely what language students will need, but some
prediction is possible.
For example;
The situation of role play is returning item of
clothing black to the stone. The teacher asked question, such as, in this situation
what will you say to salesperson? And write what the students dictate on the
right side of the board. when this is done on the left side of the board the
instructor write down useful expression, asking the students, can the customer
say it in another way?, what else can the sale person say? This way of
introducing new vocabulary makes the students more confident acting out a role
play.
4.
Factual preparation
This step
providing the students with concrete information and clear role description so
that they could play their roles with confidence.
For example
In the situation at a rail way station, the person
giving the information should have relevant information; the times and
destination of the trains, prices of tickets etc. in a more advance class and
in a more elaborated situation include on a cue card a fiction name, statues,
age personality, and fictitious interest and desires.
5.
Assigning the roles
Some instructors ask for volunteer to act out a role
play in front of the class though I might a good idea to plan in advance what
roles to assign to which students. At the beginning level the teacher can take
one of the roles and act it as a model. Sometimes, the student has role play
exercises for the home task.
6.
Follow- up
Once the role play is finished, spend some time on
debriefing. This does not mean pointing out and correct the mistakes. After the
role play, the students are satisfied with themselves; they can feel that they
have used their knowledge of the language for something concrete and useful.
This feeling of satisfaction will disappear if every mistake is analyzed. Every
student should ask their opinion about the role play and welcoming their
comment.
Procedural- steps in enacting a role play. (2)
1. Warm
up the group
Have to form a group of students and needs to choose
a situation for a role play, in which situation they are going to play and also
how they are going to play. Have to make the role play very interesting to the
students and in order to make interesting better to let them to choose the
situation themselves. If the teacher choose roles and situation for the
students then they may not be act and play the role in an effectively.
2. Select
participants.
It has to select the participants for the role play
individually about what role they want to take. For instance if we play a role
in situation of family then, have to select who wants to take a role of father,
mother, brother, sister and etc…
3. Set
the stage
Stage needs to be prepared unlike usual ones.
Moreover what need to prepare is how the individual roles are going to act and
speak according to the particular role that they are taking. And also prepare
what types of dressings they are going to wear which is suitable for the
particular roles.
4. Prepare
the observer.
When the role is going to play there also need to
have some public watching the play. And also need to have observer or judge to
observe and note down how far the role players can acted and speak accordingly
and also what mistakes that they are committing because they need to improve
next time.
5. Enact
Here it is playing a role in reality according to
the particular roles that the individuals took.
6. Discuss
and evaluate
Mainly discussed about the positive and negative
feedback’s but mainly focused about the negatives which are evaluate by the
observer while they were acting a role play. Have to really prepare against the
mistakes, that they made and develop the next enactment perfectly.
7. Re-enact
After making perfections against the mistakes that
they made, again they are going to enact the role- play.
8. Share
experience and generalize
Needs to share about what good experience that they
gained after acting such a role-play. Good experiences like working in
team/groups, cooperation with friends, confidence and etc… also need to convey
the message to the public that, what moral they are conveying.
Advantages of role play.
• Provide
opportunity for student to assume the role of others.
• Provides
opportunity to practice skill.
• It
enhances communication.
• It
demonstrates how people interact.
• It
improves interpersonal skills.
• It
helps to identify emotions in others.
• It
helps individuals to learn to accept both their own feelings and those of
others.
• It
develops confidence and self-efficacy.
Disadvantages.
• Insufficient
information leads to inappropriate results.
• Aggressive
students try to take over.
• Is
time consuming.
• If
not manage well criticism and negative evaluation may occur.
• Proficient
oral skill is necessary.
• Difficulty
for shy person.
• The
lack of space and the large number of students can make the organization of the
activities difficult.
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