6.5.4 Role play as a form of learner engagement

I have learned that role play as a form of learner engagement increases the students' level of eagerness and keenness to participate through observation. It also produces empirical evidence of a change in learner behavior since each individual at least throws a building block to knowledge through a notion of 'think as you apply'. Leaner engagement through role play requires a checklist and once it is tightly followed or revised where need be, systematic results are expected at the end of the lesson.

Role play helps to prepare quality of questions from the teacher in the task phase or at least students may pose out quality questions. This does not only help them to discover new phenomena but also replenishes the teachers' knowledge since every situation is a learning situation.

For sure I have ever engaged my learners into role play but using 'try and error' and some times doing it ineffectively due to the exorbitant number of students we teach in our class rooms. And some times the topics under study my prove to be difficult in posing the 'role play' technique when engaging learners. It can be done by simply unfolding the task and then assign each individual or small groups of individuals roles which at the end tailor as a group and come up with a new creation to the body of knowledge.