Role Playing Activity in English for Business Class for Non-English Study Program

DOI

10.2991/iconelt-17.2018.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Role playing; English for business; attitude

Abstract

This research studies about role playing activity in English for business class at Universitas Teknokrat Indonesia. English for business is a compulsory subject for non-English study program. The objectives of this study are to identify the students' attitude toward role palying activity in the class and the implementation of role play in the class. 45 students from informatic engineering study program who take English for business are the participants of this research. Data are collected through questionnaire, interview and observation which are then analyzed and tabulated. The result of this study shows that most students have positive attitudes toward role playing activity during studying English for business. knowing their role in a given situation based on topics being learnt in the class and playing the role ease them to practice speaking English and improve their English ability. Students are also motivated to learn English since the activity is enjoyable for them.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Berlinda Mandasari
PY  - 2017/08
DA  - 2017/08
TI  - Role Playing Activity in English for Business Class for Non-English Study Program
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 44
EP  - 47
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iconelt-17.2018.10
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