The Attitudes of English Teachers towards the Use of Role-play and Pictures in Developing the Speaking Skill

Abstract

The present study aimed at describing the attitudes of the English teachers towards the use of role-play and pictures in developing the students’ speaking skill. This study attempted to answer the following question:

1-Do the use of role-play procedures and techniques develop the students speaking ability based on the English teachers’ point of view?

2-Do the use of pictures procedures and techniques develop the students speaking ability based on the English teachers’ point of view?

3-Which of the two techniques is better in helping of the development of the English speaking ability according to the English teachers’ point of view?

The participants of the study consisted of 14 English teachers, males and females, from Amman and Zarqa, private and governmental schools, who were students of masters’ degree in English teaching methodology in the Hashemite University during the second semester of the academic year 2009\2010. The researcher used two questionnaires, descriptive statistics and the paired sample t-test. After the study was conducted the results showed that using the role-play and pictures techniques help students’ development in speaking skill.