Role-play as an independent learning technique in developing semantic and pragmatic competence of Saudi University students

Abstract EN

This paper investigated the effectiveness of adopting Role-play as an independent learning technique in developing semantic & pragmatic competence and the changes implemented to “Semantics and pragmatics” course at English Department, College of Administrative and Human Science in Qassim Private Colleges.

The students were asked to do some open and closed tasks of role-play in the classroom.

Therefore, role-play represents one of the solutions for solving this problem.

Participants were 32 fifth level students in English Department from Qassim Private Colleges in Saudi Arabia.

The pre-posttest was used to determine to what extent was role- play technique was effective.

Results of the t.

test analysis revealed, that adopting role- play technique yielded significant effects on students' semantic and pragmatics competence for the posttest results.