Using role plays and simulation activities in teaching speaking

USING ROLE PLAYS AND SIMULATION ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING
CONTENT

INTRODUCTION………………………………………………………........... 3
MAIN PART
1.Reasons for teaching speaking…………………………………………….. 5
2.Characteristics of communicative speaking activities………………………. 9
3.Types of role-play…………………………………………………………… 19
4.Simulation speaking in teaching speaking…………………………………. 25
CONCLUSION………………………………………………………………… 28
REFERENCES………………………………………………………………… 30

INTRODUCTION
Teaching speaking as the communicative learning process, the teacher should be wise to apply the proper technique so he/she can create a condition or situation to motivate her/his students speak more often in addition, the communicate skill that the students learn in the classroom can be furthered to their daily life communication outside the classroom. It means, they have a motivation to implement their speaking skill in their social context. As a result, their speaking skill will be improving as long as they often practice it orally.
Actuality of the work . Speaking is very important to be learned by students to develop their skills in learning English. Its functions are to share and to express the ideas. The first problem frequently found is that the students have little opportunity to practice speaking English in the real communication activity in their daily conversation. They usually use their mother tongue to answer the question from their teacher. An opportunity is an important factor to improve the students’ speaking skill. Learning the speaking skill is very challenging for learners in the foreign language context, because they have very few opportunities to use the target language outside the classroom. Without practicing language that they learnt, the students’ speaking skill cannot improve. Role play is one of activities which encourage the students to speak-up, it can be applied by the teacher to motivate their students.