Open AccessROLE- PLAY AS PART OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN EFL TEACHING
Author(s) -
Alla Bilova
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
anglìstika ta amerikanìstika
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2409-921X
pISSN - 2313-500X
DOI - 10.15421/381907
Subject(s) - drama , feeling , communicative language teaching , empathy , class (philosophy) , reading (process) , psychology , language education , teaching method , pedagogy , linguistics , computer science , social psychology , literature , art , philosophy , artificial intelligence
The article is devoted to one of the innovative, alternative methods in EFL teaching. Teaching oral speech with the help of role-play has been examined. The author puts particular emphasis on the close connection of role-play with communicative approach in EFL teaching. It has been stressed that role-play heightens self-esteem, motivation, spontaneity, increases capacity for empathy, and lowers sensitivity to rejection. All these facilitate communication and provide an appropriate psycholinguistic climate for language learning. The author considers that role-play is a source of fresh ideas and relieves the monotony of education. Role-play is considered to be one of the types of drama activity. The experience of role-play putting into practice in home-reading classes has been described. The author comes to the conclusion that the use of role-play as drama activity in Teaching English as a Foreign Language can be used as an innovative technique in language teaching. Using drama to teach English results in real communication involving ideas, emotions, feelings and adaptability; in other words an opportunity to use language in operation which is absent in conventional language class.