Teaching Grammar with Games in The ESL Classroom

Abstract

    Games are often used as short warm-up activities or when there is some time left at the end of a lesson. Games encourage, entertain, teach, and promote fluency. If not for any of these reasons, they should be used just because they help students see beauty in a foreign language and not just problems. Yet, a game "should not be regarded as a marginal activity filling in odd moments when the teacher and class have nothing better to do". Games ought to be at the heart of teaching foreign languages. Roxon suggests that games should be used at all stages of the lesson, provided that they are suitable and carefully chosen.