The Use of Role-Playing Games in English Lessons in Linguistic Universities

One of the features of teaching English as a foreign language is role-playing. Role games’ primal goal as a teaching instrument in the learning process is to provide students with the ability to practise possible conversational cases, develop confidence and fluency of speech, assess progress, and apply the knowledge gained in action. This paper concentrates on exploring the core definition of the role-playing games in general, how they are used in teaching, and the types of the role-games that can be integrated in classes. Furthermore, the paper will investigate the realization of the role-playing in learning English in online and offline formats, collecting the advantages and disadvantages of each format. Moreover, this paper will provide the results of the practical work: creating the role-playing games’ methodological materials and testing them on the 3rd year students through online and offline formats. The result of this work will be the assessing the potential of role-games in teaching and creating the methodical role-playing materials for the lessons.