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2.2 The Classification of Role Play
Researchers and scholars classify role play based on different standards.
According to the different teaching objectives, Wang Aifen (2007) divides role play into four types: simulation, reenactment, rehearsal and inversion. Simulation means that students design and act an event according to their own understanding of the specific scene. Reenactment is that students act a real event with conflict, in which students can experience the situations of conflict. In rehearsal, students perform the role that they want. In inversion, students would exchange their roles to have a better understanding of other people’s opinions and behaviors.
Chen Mengjie(2014) divides role play into four types as follow: controlled role play, half-controlled role play, half-free role play and free role play.
In controlled role play, the elements of performance are designed beforehand which include the content of the situation, the behaviour of the characters and the students’ role. Students just need to act it out according to their memory and they can also get some tips in role play, which means there is no need for their instant reaction. Therefore it’s easier for students to perform in controlled role play than in other three kinds of role plays as well as teachers’ check. In this kind of role play, students feel less nervous, which help students have a better performance.
Table 3.2 The schedule of listening-speaking class teaching
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Chapter Three Research Design ........................ 24
3.1 Research Questions ................................ 24
3.2 Research Subjects ................................ 24
3.3 Research Instruments .............................. 26
Chapter Four Results and Analysis .............................. 32
4.1 Results and Analysis of Questionnaire ........................... 32
4.2 Results and Analysis of Tests ..................................... 37
4.3 Results and Analysis of Observation .......................... 40
Chapter Five Conclusion ..................................... 46
5.1 Major Findings .............................. 46
5.2 Implications ..................................... 46
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions ....................... 48
Chapter Four Results and Analysis
4.1 Results and Analysis of Questionnaire
In order to study the students’ attitudes and views on role play, the researcher distributed the questionnaire to the students in EC after the experiment. All 55 questionnaires were valid. The questionnaire consists of 17 questions. In this section, the answers to each question are shown in the form of the table. In the table, the percentage means the number percentage of the students who have chosen this question. The first part analysis of the data is as follows:
Table 4.1 Students’ attitude in the listening-speaking class now
In terms of Q
