Role Play In The English Teaching Of Senior High School

As an international language, English is the important tool by which we acquire advanced technique in the world and communicate with other cultural and economic communities. The teaching of English in China has enabled Chinese people to step into the world-wide interaction. Yet the boost of globalization and the rapid development of the society require more than enough about the English education system. Owing to the environment restriction that the Chinese student studies the foreign language, how to create a kind of similar to the real language environment, to improve their active participation and raise the ability of actual usage language, are the purpose and core contents. Considering the limitations for Chinese students to study English, like the environmental factors, in this paper we mainly narrow our attention on the feasibility and practicability of creating real situations of language study so as to stimulate students' enthusiasm and their capacity to use English in daily life.It is believed that communication is the purpose of English teaching. Role-play is the typical social communicative activity within a communicative approach. The rationales of communicative approach direct that composing and manipulating meaningful role-play activities within the framework of English classroom to cultivate students' communicative competence is of vital importance.