Assessment of the Process and Outcomes of using Role play in Teaching Speaking Skill: The case of Algie Secondary School.

Abstract

This study was designed to assess the process and outcomes of using role play in teaching speaking skill of grade nine students at Alge Secondary School. Thus, it has been tried to discuss the findings under two main headings. Thus, the first one, an assessment of the process of using role play was done with the aims of examining the extent to which role play is implemented and examining what the provision of the activities and what the teachers and students roles looked like. Accordingly, descriptive research design was used to achieve the objective of the study. The data has been analyzed using the software SPSS 16.0 and the results indicated that role play was moderately implemented in teaching of speaking skill with the mean of 3.3 and it was also found that although the teachers tried to play their roles, the students do not play their roles and it was also found that the activities provided were not appropriate. As far as the second objective of the study, an assessment of the outcomes of using role play was concerned, experimental research design was used. and pre and post oral tests were used to gather the data and the results of the analysis showed that role play was found to be very helpful for the development of students speaking skill. Moreover, the results of the t- test analysis of the data obtained from the pre test showed that there is no significant difference in the speaking skills between the experimental and control groups. However, the results of the t- test analysis of the data obtained from the post test showed that there is a significant difference in speaking skills between the experimental and control groups. There is also a significant difference in the development of speaking skills between male and female students of the experimental group. Therefore, this study was concluded by recommending that although the teachers are well aware of the importance of role play, as there are things that need to be improved, teachers should give due emphasis to find ways of providing and practicing varieties role playing activities in English language classes for the development of students speaking skill.