The role play component in language learning as integrated in learning oral skills in French as a foreign language in Kenyan secondary schools

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2013 in the subject French - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: -, Atlantic International University, course: Role play and language learning, language: English, comment: Role play and foreign language learning helps the learners to develop speaking skills within defined social contexts. Languages are always spoken within certain defined spacio-social context. The learning of French as a foreign language in Kenya takes cognizance that oral skills are important to facilitate competent communication in any given language. This thesis makes an attempt to interpret the Kenyan reality of learning oral French skills within a learning set-up in Kenyan secondary schools. , abstract: This thesis focuses on role play and the development of oral skills in French as a foreign language in Kenya. Ideally as I have observed in this write-up, role play is a low input high output process. The development of speaking skills in French are well enhanced using role-play as a strategy-cum-technique to facilitate the French oral skills to Kenyan learners who have opted to study French as a foreign language. The conceptual Framework which I have opted to use in this particular academic write-up is Stephen Kraschen's Monitor Model and the Grounded theory. I have made a deliberate and elaborate focus on Kraschen's comprehension input theory. For one to speak s(he) has to get some snippets or basic aspects of the language being learnt. My research findings have established that the urge to speak a language being introduced for the first time to the learner, the eagerness and motivation is always there right at the immediate and initial encounter with the language. With the well trained instructor or teacher the oral skills will develop well in tandem with the reading, listening and writing skills. The grounded theory which I have grafted together with Kraschen's Monitor Model on language acquisition is well buttressed in social rese