Role-play as a communicative strategy for students to improve their English as a second language speaking skills : a Review

Blackman, Daryelin and Ríos, Aleojin (2025) Role-play as a communicative strategy for students to improve their English as a second language speaking skills : a Review. Revista Científica Especializada en Educación y Ambiente, 4 (1). pp. 65-78. ISSN 2953-2981

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Abstract

Role-playing is a strategy to engage students in the process of acquire a second language in an interactive way. This systematic review is a research based on the improvement of the speaking skill of EFL students through role play technique. EFL learners showed difficulty in the learning process to improve their speaking skill. This review objective was to prove thatrole play help EFL students to improve speaking skill using role plays. In this project a quantitative and qualitative methods were combined to demonstrate the role play impact in the acquisition process. For this review, twenty scientific articles were selected to find out if the role-play technique helps to improve speaking skills in EFL students. Role-play is an innovative and interactive technique to the improvement of English in EFL learners. The scientific articles researched demonstrated an improvement of the speaking skill. Also, the studies showed that role playing is a successful technique to improve the speaking skill of language acquisition.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Speaking skills, role-plays, improvement, english as a second language
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PE English
Depositing User:	Fergie Pineda
Date Deposited:	14 Apr 2026 13:30
Last Modified:	14 Apr 2026 13:31
URI:	http://up-rid.up.ac.pa/id/eprint/10304

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