RULE YOUR PLAY OR PLAY YOUR ROLE (RELOD + Olga Filatova)

RULE YOUR PLAY

OR PLAY YOUR ROLE

by Olga Filatova,

The Linguistics University,

Nizhny Novgorod

“Real life this far had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of Dungeons & Dragons, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp.”

Ethan Gilsdorf, an American writer, poet, editor, critic,

teacher and journalist

The development of sociocultural competence is a dominant adaptation component of a graduate in a multipolitical space

Stages of teaching speaking

1.The completely manipulative phase

2. The predominantly manipulative phase

3. The predominantly communicative phase

4. Completely communicative phase

What does teaching speaking involve?

Teaching conversational elements and specific language features

Choosing different activities on different stage of learning

Keeping a balance between accuracy and fluency activities

Using different forms of accuracy and fluency work

Problems with speaking activities1. Time consuming.

2. Inhibition.

3. Nothing to say.

4. Low or uneven participation.

5. Mother-tongue use.

6. Problems with tasks

7. Teacher dominates

Fluency Work Conversation Discussion Simulations

Role-play Games

Simulation and role-play

In simulations the individual participants speak and react as themselves,

but group role, situation and task they are given is an imaginary one.

Role-play

Advantages: Students are not limited to the language used in a

classroom: they can be shopkeepers or spies, grandparents or children, etc.

Role-play situations are based on real life situations and they provide useful practice to the language the learners may need to use in similar situations outside the classroom

A Step-by-Step Guide to Makinga Role Play

Step 1 - A Situation for a Role Play

Step 2 - Role Play Design

Step 3 - Linguistic Preparation

Step 4 - Factual Preparation

Step 5 - Assigning the Roles

Step 6 - Follow-up

English File Intermediate (3rd edition)

English File Intermediate (3rd edition)

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