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Language of Meetings: An ESP Role Play Idea

Role play is not a new and revolutionary tool in teaching foreign languages. However, it is often re-discovered because of its effectiveness and flexibility — it provides a realistic context, since it imitates a real-life situation, in which students can develop their listening and speaking skills, but also put into practice their knowledge of specific terminology and/or grammar. It is especially useful in ESP classrooms because it can be used to develop and assess students’ skills. The basic assumption is that role play is an experience developed around a scenario which contains two or more different viewpoints or perspectives. These different perspectives on the same situation are prepared as written instructions (roles) and are handed out to different students, who then discuss the situation. The students are usually also given a particular objective that they are instructed to reach, which can result in conflict with their fellow role player/s. In order for such interaction to be successful, the objectives and the instructions need to be clear. The workshop will provide an example of role play use for teaching the language of meetings with Project Management graduate students (second cycle higher education) and give some ideas on how to spice things up.

ESP, instructions, language of meetings, role play

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