Teacher’s Perception On The Use Of Role Play In Speaking Class

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe of two English teachers perception based on teacher experience on how they use role play to facilitate the students’ in speaking practice at different English courses in Yogyakarta. The participants of this research are two teachers in different courses that teach speaking skill and have used role play as one of their techniques. In addition, researchers used descriptive studies and thematic analysis as a data analysis technique for the data that has been obtained with interview as the main source. The findings show that the two participants that used role play in their speaking class has similar basic steps on doing it. However, the implementation still has differences and has their own focus through the goals of teaching. The researcher also found some aspect that helps and expected to students’ speaking ability while using role play in the class that discussed in discussion section.