The Effect of Role-Playing for Building Students’ Speaking Motivation and Positive Characters

Lingga Agustina Suganda, Zuraida Zuraida, Dedi Kurniawan

2017

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the effect of using role-playing on building students’ English speaking motivation and positive characters. This case study focused on finding the students’ perception towards the use of role-playing method during their speaking class in the English Education Department at one of the universities in Indonesia. The data were collected through questionnaire and face to face semi-structured interviews with the first, third, and fifth semester students. The results of this study indicated that students had positive attitudes towards the use of role-playing during their speaking class. They claimed that the use of role-playing method during the class could lead them to have better communication, interpersonal skills, and management development since they would have to interact most of the time with one another starting from preparing for the script, practicing, until performing the plays. Role-playing was believed to build the students’ speaking motivation and four main positive characteristics, namely cooperation, creativity, responsibility, and disciplin.

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in Harvard Style

Suganda L., Zuraida Z. and Kurniawan D. (2017). The Effect of Role-Playing for Building Students’ Speaking Motivation and Positive Characters.In The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE, ISBN 978-989-758-332-2, pages 295-298. DOI: 10.5220/0007166202950298


in Bibtex Style

@conference{conaplin and icollite17,
author={Lingga Agustina Suganda and Zuraida Zuraida and Dedi Kurniawan},
title={The Effect of Role-Playing for Building Students’ Speaking Motivation and Positive Characters},
booktitle={The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,},
year={2017},
pages={295-298},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007166202950298},
isbn={978-989-758-332-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - The Tenth Conference on Applied Linguistics and The Second English Language Teaching and Technology Conference in collaboration with The First International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education - Volume 1: CONAPLIN and ICOLLITE,
TI - The Effect of Role-Playing for Building Students’ Speaking Motivation and Positive Characters
SN - 978-989-758-332-2
AU - Suganda L.
AU - Zuraida Z.
AU - Kurniawan D.
PY - 2017
SP - 295
EP - 298
DO - 10.5220/0007166202950298