It is one of the active-learning strategies that gives the learner the prominent role, prompting them to perform it as themselves or to perform a role for another person in a particular task or activity, and all of this takes place in a carefully controlled situation dominated by cooperative work and the learners' desire to perform the roles assigned to them.
It is the learner or a group of learners acting out certain roles spontaneously, without prior preparation, that is, in an improvised manner in front of classmates or a group of viewers. The results of the role-play depend on the discussions that follow the performance and the activities that come after it, such as acting out the roles of the school principal and teachers.
The role-play method is distinguished by developing and activating students' expressive abilities.
A continuation of what learners are used to doing in their ordinary lives.
Encouraging them to master thinking skill and analysis
Role-play achieves harmony between ideas and skills in order to reach creativity and the continuous evaluation of one's own behaviour, so as to reach a stage of self-satisfaction
Role-play is considered a method derived from the science of social drama (sociodrama)
Teachers at every stage, student-activity supervisors and trainers.
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