Role-playing is a strategy to engage students in the process of acquire a second language in an interactive way. This systematic review is a research based on the improvement of the speaking skill of EFL students through role play technique. EFL learners showed difficulty in the learning process to improve their speaking skill. This review objective was to prove that role play help EFL students to improve speaking skill using role plays. In this project a quantitative and qualitative methods were combined to demonstrate the role play impact in the acquisition process. For this review, twenty scientific articles were selected to find out if the role-play technique helps to improve speaking skills in EFL students. Role-play is an innovative and interactive technique to the improvement of English in EFL learners. The scientific articles researched demonstrated an improvement of the speaking skill. Also, the studies showed that role playing is a successful technique to improve the speaking skill of language acquisition.
