Roleplaying and Speaking Fluency

Abstract

Speaking fluency is a subskill that is essential for learners to develop their ideas in English conversations. The purpose of this research is to analyze the influence of roleplaying in speaking fluency in students from basic and professional units from “Pedagogia de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros” at “Universidad Técnica de Ambato”. The population of this research were from second, third, fourth, and fifth semesters. The present research project carried out qualitative and quantitative approaches to obtain data. A survey was applied to 85 students to analyze the influence of roleplaying in speaking fluency. The survey was evaluated with Chi-Square, it is a statistical model, to verify the hypothesis. The level of this research was descriptive to know if there is an influence on speaking fluency using roleplaying activity. Main findings stated that the use of roleplaying has an influence on speaking fluency since students claimed a development in their speaking after performing roleplaying. In addition, the statistical model showed up that it is a highly recommended theme to do further experiments applying roleplaying in classes. Therefore, teachers must include Roleplaying to let students the opportunity to practice speaking skills throughout this activity