Students' Perceptions Using Role-Playing Method on Students' Speaking Ability on the Sixth Semester English Education Department at University in Subang

Abstract

This study is aimed at discovering students’ perspectives regarding the use of role play in learning English, especially in learning speaking ability. This research used qualitative research where the research was conducted based on the actual conditions and the participants of this study are three English Education study Program students in one of the universities in Subang, West Java. This descriptive study employed questionnaire and interview guidelines in collecting the data and the researcher then checked the data to present all the information from the interviews and questionnaire in the form of a description after calculating the percentage of the questionnaire. In sum, this study found that the use of role-play in teaching and learning process gives many benefits for the students. Furthermore, the students have some problems by using role-play as learning technique such as they did not feel confident, could not master the material, feel nervous, and find difficulties to memorize.