Résumé:
The research at hand aims at investigating students’ attitudes towards the use of role play to
decrease anxiety. The method of this research work is a descriptive one, which aims at
describing the two variables: role play as the dependent variable and its role in reducing
students’ anxiety as the independent variable. To achieve this aim, data are collected through
the questionnaire as a quantitative method; two questionnaires were administered to seventy
five second year LMD students at the department of English and seven oral expression
teachers at the same department to explore their attitudes, perceptions towards Role Play as a
technique to decrease anxiety. It is assumed that the more students were exposed to role
plays, their anxiety would be reduced. The results obtained revealed that using role play
increases students’ anxiety. On the basis of these results, the assumption was not confirmed,
thus using role play increases students’ anxiety. Consequently, teachers’ are recommended to
use appropriate techniques to avoid anxiety in order to improve students’ speaking skil
