The Effectiveness of a Role-Play Activity in Practicing EFL Learner’s Communicative Skills
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Role-Play Activity, Communicative Skills, EffectivenessAbstract
The essence and core pursuit of English learning is to communicate in English. Role-play activity is an important means of English learning. In role-play activities, students communicate and interact under specific learning topics to achieve the purpose of applying what they have learned. This paper expounds on the importance of role-play activity in English teaching to cultivate English learners’ communicative skills and competence. Role-playing activities help stimulate students’ communicative intention, enhance students’ communicative creativity, and create a harmonious communication atmosphere to improve students’ communicative competence. This paper also discusses the methods and suggestions for using role-play activities to improve English learners’ communicative skills and competence. Teachers should create a suitable communication situation, develop students’ communicative competence according to the role-playing Stage, and use communicative strategies and conversational skills to realize communicative intention.
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