The rule of the game was simple. All students had to stand up in circle and they had to roll the box with a song played by the teacher. When the song stopped, the student who held the box had to take one of rolled papers and did the task given by the teacher. Before writing the students were given the knowledge about the structure of the text and the purpose of the text.
The teacher gave a topic for students. The students would write in a group of four and exchanged the writing with other groups and did peer assessment. In the end the teacher would give feedback and correction. Problems Faced in Using Games in Teaching English Based on the findings by interviewing the teacher and the observation, the problems which were faced by the teacher were as follows: 1.
The management of time was not really good because of unprepared material and technical problem. It was difficult to find suitable material for playing games. The criteria of assessment were not clear. Sometimes there was not enough room for students to move around and the voice level could disturb other nearer classes. Some of students who were really lack of motivation often did not participate in the games, especially when the games were done in groups.
To do this, as stated in the previous chapter, the researcher used questionnaires. There were ten questions and categorized into two parts. From the questionnaires related to the teaching English for students, 9. Then There were Table 1. Form the next point in the questionnaire, it was known that In other hand In the last question, the researcher gave open question to the students about the problem when using playing the games.
It is presented in accordance with the research questions. Kinds of Games Used and the Implementation Games were used to encourage learners to explore the target language. By doing games in classroom the teacher asked the students to learn and at the same time also enjoy themselves. Stated by Lee in Dalton by using games in the teaching, teacher not only found it as one way to deliver the material in fun way but also as practice for students to improve their ability including speaking, writing, reading, and listening.
By doing so, learners were immersed in using the target language, which assisted them to better internalize a new language. It was because by doing games the students would not feel intimidated or shy when learning English. Dalton mentions that activities structured as games can provide concrete practice for learners, while reducing the tension and anxiety often encountered during the learning process.
These games helped to boost motivation, particularly cooperative games, and were easily adjusted in difficulty to reflect the learning levels of the students. Games such as Jeopardy, Guess the Word were also way to make sure all learners were included in the learning effort, not only a few highly motivated or extroverted students. Because the games which were used often based on real-life activities, they offered an opportunity to practice the realistic use of language to communicate.
Problems Faced in Using Games in Teaching English Harmer states that games are used to provoke the communication among students. But in fact many students still learned how to speak and the objective of creating meaningful communication still became a long time task for teachers. In addition Chen states that while playing games, the learners' attention was on the message, not on the language.
Rather than paying attention to the correctness of linguistic forms, most participants would do all they could to win. For teachers, using the game-based platform in class was sometimes a real challenge. On the other hand, it was found that some teacher did not have any well arranged lesson plan so that the teaching and learning process sometimes did not meet the objectives made and turned out to be unprepared.
Games made some materials more understandable, because the students really enjoy the learning. While the students felt relax and enjoy the teaching and learning process in classroom it was easy for teacher to teach the target language. In other hand, some of the students seemed to have their difficulties when playing games. These games were used to deliver the material, to assess the student skill in understanding the text, and to revise previous material, such as grammar.
Some of these problems were occurred while the teaching and learning process. The problems were: 1 time management, 2 assessment, 3 lacked motivated students, 4 place, and 5 finding suitable material for games. The teacher did not have any well arranged lesson plan either.
The students thought that games helped them to understand the material easier and games could reduce boredom. Student felt relax when learning English by using games. Most of students refer to the lack of the vocabulary as a hindrance in doing games. Elysian Battlefields : This crowdsourced game is set in Elysium, the afterlife for heroes, where some of the greatest warriors that ever lived battle to conquer rule, or reign over the rest. Ideas to add to the game are welcome.
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