The use of role play in teaching English to students in the department of Tourism and Hotel Management of Ondokuz Mayıs University

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Thesis Type: Postgraduate

Institution Of The Thesis: Ondokuz Mayıs University, Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, Yabancı Diller Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

Approval Date: 2004

Thesis Language: English

Student: FATMA GEDİZ

Supervisor: Nalan Kızıltan

Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection

Abstract:

VI ABSTRACT In this study, the effectiveness of some role play techniques used in the first and second year students who are the false beginners in the department of Tourism and Hotel Management at Ondokuz Mayıs University, has been investigated compared to traditional language teaching techniques in tourism sector. While the experimental group has been exposed to some role play techniques as communicative language teaching techniques, the control group has been exposed to traditional language teaching techniques. The students in both groups have been given an English Proficiency Test at the beginning and end of the semester in order to determine their proficiency level and difference in achievement. At the end of the study, a multiple-choice role play test that contains the texts of the role play techniques has been given. Since in the role play technique the four language skills are taught in an integrated way, two different writing skills exams as a dictation and free writing exam are given in order to measure the effect of the role play on the development of writing skill. Data from all the tests in the study are analyzed by the t-test in SSPS, a statistical analysis program. Furthermore, an item analysis has been made in order to test the achievement of the students through role play techniques. In all the tests, statistical difference has been detected between the experimental and the control groups, and also in terms of the English Language Proficiency Test, Role play Test and two writing Skills Exams statistical scores of the experimental group are higher at the end of the study. Overall a statistically significant difference has been found between two groups according to each test. When the findings and our observation of the students' behavior are taken into account, the role play techniques can be said to be more effective in improvingVII English Language and communication skills of the students in the department of the Tourism and hotel Management than traditional language teaching techniques.