Author: Rania Titi
This study investigates the impact of role-playing on enhancing the cognitive speaking skills of fourth-grade students. Many students face difficulties in achieving fluency, clarity, and correct application of the rules of a language during spontaneous speaking. Role-playing is one of the methods that offer structured possibilities for engaging students in meaningful, real-life speaking activities. The study aims to establish how effective this method is in developing the students' oral fluency, clarity of the students’ ideas, and monitoring of their speaking processes. The descriptive method used a triangulation approach of quantitative and qualitative designs, with pre- and post-intervention measurements, classroom observation, and teachers’ interviews is used as a tool for data collection. Preliminary results indicated that role-playing enhances students' fluency, self-correction, and confidence, but leaves some open issues like participation and the support given by teachers. It therefore contributes to language education and gives real insight into integrating active learning strategies to facilitate cognitive speaking dimensions. The study recommends, avoiding the use of material rewards during the implementation of role-playing strategy, and further studies should be conducted for a better understanding of using role playing in enhancing the cognitive speaking skills among students using the qualitative research design.
Keywords: Role-playing, cognitive skills, oral fluency, speaking strategies, language education, fourth-grade students, Palestine.
Rania Titi, Master of Arts in Teaching Program (MAT), Al-Quds Bard College for Arts & Sciences, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine. Teacher of English, Ministry of Education, Bethlehem Governorate. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
