Role plays and oral fluency

Abstract

Most of the English learners want to become fluent English speaker, on account of this teachers should provide practical and useful strategies such as Role Plays to develop and improve students’ oral fluency. The current research work was aimed to analyzed the impact of Role plays in the development of English oral fluency. This research work had a mixmethod because qualitative and quantitative approach were used. The design of this study was quasi-experimental research with a single group of 35 participants from tenth grade of Unidad Educativa “Sagrada Familia”. The experimental part of the research last 6 weeks in one face to face class and 5 online sessions and the pedagogical interventions involved the use of role plays as main strategy in oral fluency. To collect the results, the researcher applied a pre-t and post- test taken from A2Flyers speaking test part 1,2,3 and 4 by Cambridge which asses speaking student’s ability in term of oral fluency before and after using role plays. The results showed that students needed to improve their speaking skill due to the fact that the total average of the pre-test was 8,86 over 15 and 2,95 over 5 points, Consequently, students were taught by applying Role Plays. After finishing the 6 session, students took a post-test in order to compare it with the pre-test- The total average for the post test was 11,06 and 3,68 over 5. It is important to highlight the progress of 2,20. The findings confirmed that there is a significant influence of role plays in oral fluency. This study concluded that Role Plays can be used to improve students speaking skill and sub skill such as fluency.