Using role plays and simulation activities in teaching speaking

Conclusion
In the conclusion, it was found that the implementation of role play activity could improve the students’ speaking skill. Moreover, the students were interested and actively involved in the teaching and learning process. It means that the teacher could apply role play as one of speaking activities since role play provides some benefits. First, by implementing role play as a speaking activity, the students speaking skill was improved. It was indicated from students’ improvements on some aspects, namely fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary and accuracy. Second, the use of role play could improve students’ involvement and motivation in teaching learning of speaking. Therefore, the students became active in the teaching learning activities. These imply that the uses of role play could improve the students’ speaking skill through its enjoyable, motivating and interesting speaking activity. Therefore, the English teacher is encouraged to apply it in the process of teaching speaking. The implementations of role play as a speaking activity are useful and important to improve the students’ speaking skill. And also, the students become more active to speak English. This suggests students implement role play activity in their learning process. The result of the study showed that there were some improvements of the students’ speaking ability. First of all, the implementation of role-play created the enjoyable learning atmosphere that improved the students’ motivation to practice speaking. This referred to the fact that they enthusiastically got involved in the role-play activity. While having role-play activity, it could be seen that they were enjoyed acting the roles based on the given situation. Role-play also could improve the students’ self-confidence. There were gradual improvements on their level of confidence. In the first cycle, only a few students confidently perform their role-play. Surprisingly in the second cycle, most of them confidently acted their roles. It showed that role-play could minimize the students’ self-esteem.
Moreover, there was a statistical evidence proved that the students’ speaking ability improved. Role Play strategy is approved effective to improve students' interest to speak English in the classroom. The students who studied through role play show significant improvement in their speaking performance on the post test.Role play is an appropriate strategy to be implemented vocational class. The English teachers should design it to meet students level such as children class, adult class or vocational class or general class. Role play materials should be contextual with students real life. The role that the students act should be familiar with the students in the classroom. The tools or facilities in role play are considered effective to build communication.