THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TASK BASED INSTRUCTIONS TO IMPROVE SPEAKING SKILL OF EFL STUDENTS THROUGH ROLE-PLAYS
Keywords:
students` speaking skills, importance of role-plays,Abstract
The goals of this study are (1) to find out student`s speaking skills before being taught by using task-based instructions. (2) To know changes and developments of the students` speaking skills after being taught by using task based instructions. (3) To find out major differences of students` speaking skills before and after the study. In this study 15 second year students of Uzbekistan State World languages university participated. Their English level was B2 on average, but, they had many difficulties when it comes to speaking part. For this study, researcher interviewed students before the test and find out major problems. For main test, students participated in role plays 3 times. Finally, they were interviewed again, in order to know the effect of role play to develop their speaking skills.
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