Role-playing as an effective method of increasing speech activity in teaching English

Abstract

The article focuses on the benefits of business- and role-playing games in the professional training process of students. Business- and role-playing games, which are the elements of the reproductive method of teaching, are more conducive to train students' language and speech skills and to develop communicative competence of future specialists. The article defines the goals of this method, gives the classification, structure and content of role-playing games. Features of using of the role-playing games are considered in order to enhance learning motivation. The ways to organize and the steps to implement the role-playing at the English lessons are provided in the work.