Role playing is a form of playing in which there are objective, rules and also involves the element of fun (Jill Hadfield, 1986). In educational theory, role playing is a form of learning that can bring the various aspects of developments in one activity, cognitive, affective and psychomotor. Generally,

meaningful learning occurs if it can unify the various aspects of developments in one activity.

Role playing in principle, is learning to 'present' roles that there are in real world into a 'show' in the learning activities, as one form of reflection from real events. Every child is involved become actors in accordance with the scenario in their respective roles. Learning is more emphasis on the issues raised in the 'show', and not on the players ability in doing the role playing. Teachers assess the communication skills by children, social contract, attitudes and emotions are shown. Then, by role playing , directly and actively engage children in learning activities. As the theory of Vygotsky, learning occurs in social contexts.

According to some research, role playing can provide "hidden practice", expressions which can be hidden out from child, including the ability who had never seen. then, role playing involving all children in learning activities. Included with role playing , children feel happy and fond memories with these activities (Bobby DePorter, 2000).

The steps implementation of Role Playing

• Teachers arrange / prepare the scenario that will be displayed.
• Choose a child and which will be shown, as well as teach the scenario from drama.
• Setting premises, equipment and attributes to play activity
• Another teacher preparing kids to see , and comment on assessment are shown his friend.
• The teacher discusses that had been displayed together with all children, and prepare scenarios longer to be displayed at the next meeting by the other children.

In this case, teachers can provide assessment of not only the players, including responses from other children who were watching them, from expression shown, interaction language, and others.

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