The Use of Role Play to Develop English Listening and Speaking Skills for Communication of Grade 4 Students

Abstract

The purposes of this study were 1) to develop listening and speaking skills for English communication of Grade 4 students, 2) to compare their learning achievement of English before and after the use of role play. The subjects were 26 students taking a basic English course during the first semester of the academic year 2018 at Saenpakdeewittaya School in Si Bun Rueang District, Khon Kaen Province. The experiment was conducted for 12 hours. The instruments used for the data collection were six lesson plans focusing on role play activities, a listening and speaking skills for English communication assessment, an English pre-test and post-test.  The data were analyzed by means of mean, standard deviation, and a t-test for dependent samples.

           The findings were as follows:

           1.The use of role play for developing listening and speaking skills in English communication of grade 4 students made all 26 students pass the objective of the study (100 %).

           2. The comparison of the pre-test and post-test scores showed that the post-test score was significantly higher at the statistical