Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards Role Play at Enhancing Cultural Aspects: Case Study Third Year Students at Mila University Center.

Abstract

Recently, the broadening intercultural diversity has indubitably led instructors to merge culture in their language teaching. It is generally agreed that mastering English as a second foreign language demands the use of effective strategies that interpose the learners with features of culture and enhance their fluency and accuracy in speaking. Thus, they ameliorate their communicative competence. It is speculated that Role Play is one of the methods that has been proven to enhance students‟ speaking abilities and elevate their ICC. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to explore the utilization of role play in developing the intercultural communicative competence. On this basis, a case study research was conducted at the department of languages at Mila university center with third year LMD (EFL) students depending on two questionnaires as tools of research, to gather integral data from a sample of 60 respondents and 8 teachers. The findings obtained from the questionnaires reveal that that both teachers and students agreed upon the success of this strategy to reinforce the learners‟ intercultural communicative competence, moreover, it strengthens their speaking skill