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Speaking skills is very important to everyone because nowadays, it is very crucial and important for everyone to speak in English. Other than that English is the majority of students' first language these days, speaking it in class or outside of it is commonplace. This study explores teaching experiences teacher’s that conduct role play in the ESL classroom in terms of benefits during English Speaking lessons. Qualitative research design was employed in this study where 3 ESL teachers were involved in the data collection. In this study, the ESL educators were asked to share their own experience in conducting role play to their pupils. Additionally, their views on how these strategies could be applied in conducting role play in class. It is suggested that teachers should help the pupils in speaking English through role play. Finally, the implications of these findings for the benefits and the challenges of role play were discussed.Based on the findings of this study, it shows that role play is able to enhance the engagement, ability to express themselves, creative thinking and self confidence. The challenges that show from this study through role are anxiety, low - self esteem, scared of making mistakes and lack of vocabulary.
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