mplementing drama techniques to improve EFL learners’ speaking skills and oral production

Abstract

Speaking is an essential skill that EFL/ ESL learners should master. Learners face many problems in their process of learning speaking such as fear of using the target language for communicative purposes and lack of motivation. With regard to those problems, role-play is a teaching/ learning activity which is suggested to overcome those problems. The present study investigated the effect of role-play as a classroom activity on first year EFL learners at Jijel University. This study attempted to determine whether or not using roleplaying activities in language classrooms might enhance the speaking abilities of EFL learners. The research includes a students’ questionnaire which was delivered to first year EFL students and a classroom observation I oral expression class. The findings of this study showed that EFL learners speaking abilities increase and develop by using Role- playing as a teaching technique