ПРЕИМУЩЕСТВА ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ С ПОМОЩЬЮ РОЛЕВЫХ ИГР

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For non-native speakers, learning a foreign language is always difficult; in these situations, several strategies can help to lessen this difficulty for both students and teachers. Role- playing games are among the most entertaining and beneficial pastimes. Individuals' personal development, communication skills, problem-solving ability, and empathy are all significantly impacted by role-playing exercises. Participants can explore various viewpoints, attitudes, and emotions by taking on a fictitious role and acting out events in these exercises. Here, we go into great length about the benefits and drawbacks of role-playing games. Key words: cooperation, information gap activities, linguistic proficiency, communicative competency, fluency, role-playing, and simulations. ПРЕИМУЩЕСТВА ПРЕПОДАВАНИЯ ИНОСТРАННЫХ ЯЗЫКОВ С ПОМОЩЬЮ РОЛЕВЫХ ИГР Аннотация. Для тех, кто не является носителем языка, изучение иностранного языка всегда сопряжено с трудностями; в таких ситуациях несколько стратегий могут помочь уменьшить эту трудность как для студентов, так и для преподавателей. Ролевые игры - одно из самых занимательных и полезных времяпрепровождений. Упражнения в ролевых играх оказывают значительное влияние на личностное развитие людей, коммуникативные навыки, способность решать проблемы и сопереживание. Участники могут исследовать различные точки зрения, установки и эмоции, беря на себя вымышленную роль и разыгрывая события в этих упражнениях. Здесь мы подробно рассказываем о преимуществах и недостатках ролевых игр. Ключевые слова: сотрудничество, деятельность, связанная с информационным разрывом, владение языком, коммуникативная компетентность, свободное владение языком, ролевые игры и симуляции. Many educators have spoken about the effectiveness of the role-play technique in language instruction, but Maxwell may have provided the most thorough summary of the benefits of using role-play. Maxwell says that the essence of role-play is role-play, which can help students improve their language skills, increase their motivation and interest, and enable teachers to teach the language as well as cultural awareness. Based on research by Maxwell and other academics, the following list of benefits of role- playing in language instruction: 1) It enables students to learn and practice the target language in meaningful context. 2) It improves students’ different skills needed for the language acquisition process. 3) It motivates students to be interested and involved in learning. 4) It creates low-anxiety learning environments for students. 5) It offers students a variety of experiences and improves their 4 language skills. 7 23 International scientific journal ISSN: 2181-3906 «MODERN SCIENCE АND RESEARCH» 2023 VOLUME 2 / ISSUE 10 / UIF:8.2 / MODERNSCIENCE.UZ 6) It helps to improve students’ cultural and nonverbal behavior. In оrder to analyze the effective ways of implementing role play activities in teaching foreign languages we made a survey among the teachers and students of higher and primary educational schools. The reason of choosing teachers and students for the survey is that we want to analyze the results from two aspects. While having the questionnaire we asked the questions from teachers and students of the Bukhara State University, school concerning the need of using role play activities in every type of the lesson. Besides, we asked which type of role play activity they would prefer, for instance: cooperative role playing, conflict role playing, information gap role playing, and task based role playing. While most students chose cooperative and information gap role play activities, teachers mostly chose сooperative, conflict and information gap role play activities. Because they consider that these two types of role playing activities enhance students not only speaking skills, but also their critical thinking and point of view. Van Ments summarized the advantages of role-play on attitudes and feelings of the students as follows1;  Enables students to express hidden feelings.  Enables student to discuss private issues and problems.  Enables student to empathize with others and understand their motivations.  Gives practice in various types of behavior.  Portrays generalized social problems and dynamics of group interaction, formal and informal.  Gives life and immediacy to academic descriptive material.  Role plays are motivational and effective because it involves activity.  Provides feedback for teacher and student.  It is student- сentered.  Сloses gap between training and real life situations.  They change attitudes.  Permits training in the control of feelings and emotions. Another question of the survey was connected with effectiveness of implementing role play activities with the mixed ability students. Most of the teachers consider that when the difficult parts of the task is аdopted, or when the teacher can organize the roles according to their abilities, the result will be much more effective than