How the Role-Plays Can Be Increased Students’ Self-Confidence in Using English for Communication Arts

Abstract

This study was aimed to investigate how the role-play can be increased students’ selfconfidence in using English for Communication Arts-Comm. Arts, as well as, the students’ attitudes towards the use of role-play in English for Communication Arts class. There are 64 students who registered in second semester 2008 at Rambhai Barni Rajabhat University--RBRU. Since students’ confidence was difficult to determine and measure objectively, the technique required information from the students through pre and post questionnaires. The data were two periods collected, before and after Role-play using in English for Communication Arts class. And the data were thereby formulated and tabulated in terms of frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. The hypothesis was tested by a pair sample test. The findings of the study indicated that role-plays could increase the majority of the students’ confidence to use English for Communication in Comm. Arts. field, and also showed that most students had positive attitudes and interesting activity toward the use of role-play in Comm. Arts course.