Meaning of role play in English
(Definition of role play from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of role play
role play
The unique design of the larger study had captured both naturally occurring role-play episodes and the original interactions on which the play was based.
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Exercises include discussion, role-play, simulation, report writing, negotiating budgets and contracts, consumer surveys, small talk, social arrangements, telling anecdotes, exchanging opinions, and socializing.
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Training workshops utilized small group work : videos and role-play allowed the practice use of relevant techniques.
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Teachers presented skill concepts using modeling stories, puppet characters, photographs, and role-play demonstrations.
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Improvements in skills on videotaped role-play, attitudes and confidence were shown in a before-and-after training evaluation.
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Interviewers, mostly senior community health sisters, were recruited and trained to perform the interviews using role-play and practice interviews.
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In sum, a few researchers of role-play have recognized in-role speech as having a metacommunicative function.
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Once a role-reversal has been established through assigning roles, the participants continually address each other using the role-play names.
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Training for the telephone monitoring program included 4 hours of didactic instruction and 4 hours of demonstration or role-play.
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The workshop consisted of lecture, role-play, and the exercise of assessment and care planning based on two vignette verbatim records.
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The cooperative role-play analyzed here is unusual in that it is drawn from talk at home rather than in a nursery school or laboratory setting.
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Therefore, they have to reason with the disputants and persuade them through role-play.
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Interviewers received 8 hours of additional training from the principal investigator including role-play of at least three assessments.
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Both pairs, (1-2) and (3- 4) suggest that both pretend play episodes are based on previous interactions that provide "scripts" for the role-play.
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Finally, this analysis has shown that role-play is a layered activity composed moment-to-moment in interaction.
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