ROLE PLAYING AS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL IN MASTERING STUDENTS’ FINANCE AND ECONOMIC VOCABULARY AT THE HIGHER SCHOOL

Abstract

The article concentrates on the issue of role play gaming at the seminars devoted to teaching Financial and Economic English at the seminars at the higher school of economics. The author focuses her attention on the vital impact of role play gaming and the chance for the teachers to apply such a useful and productive, as well as effective mechanism of developing vocabulary as a prod and spur to fluency and an instrument to motivate second-year students to show interest in improving and mastering conversational, finance and economic English. The author demonstrates the importance of role plays in conversational English practice and considers role play to be the useful and effective method of teaching foreign language. The research stresses that such method is rather effective as it helps to boost students’ motivation and gives them the opportunity to communicate and reflect on hot and up-today subjects from the sphere of economics finance and business. The researcher reflects on methods and tools which assist specialists in their endeavors to develop English language communicative skills of the students of economic university and outlines the possible methods to practice functional lexis.