From Role Play to Real Play: Teaching Effective Role-Playing Facilitation Skills

The relationship between teaching conversation through role play and speaking

Role-plays provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate how to use English in real life situations and make them focus more on communication than on grammar. Oral presentations like conversations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. Therefore, this paper makes an attempt to investigate whether teaching conversation through role play affects the students’ speaki...

Role , Play , Art Collected Experiences of Role - Playing

Teaching Composition using Role Play and Feedback from Multiple Agents

Writing is an extremely difficult task because it requires the simultaneous solution of multiple, often conflicting constraints. This paper describes a two-component system which helps students write by helping them learn what the different constraints are, and how to address them. The first component is a 3D role-playing environment in which students control characters that are put in difficul...

Teaching safety skills to children to prevent gun play.

Research has shown that children often engage in gun play when they find a firearm and that this behavior is often involved in unintentional firearm injuries. Previous research has shown existing programs to be ineffective for teaching children safety skills to reduce gun play. This study examined the effectiveness of a behavioral skills training (BST) program supplemented with in situ training...

Teaching play skills to young children with autism.

BACKGROUND Play is critical for the development of young children and is an important part of their daily routine. However, children with autism often exhibit deficits in play skills and engage in stereotypic behaviour. We reviewed studies to identify effective instructional strategies for teaching play skills to young children with autism. METHOD Empirical studies on teaching play skills to ...