The purpose of this paper is to improve the students' listening and speaking ability through English games in primary school classes. It is assumed in this paper that an English class through games world affect a learner' a interest, attitude and impr...
The purpose of this paper is to improve the students' listening and speaking ability through English games in primary school classes. It is assumed in this paper that an English class through games world affect a learner' a interest, attitude and improvement of communication in learning English. I examined two classes of elementary school by dividing them into experimental and comparative classes.
Games seem to be one of the most effective activities in elementary English classes to arouse the learner's interest and to develop their communicative competences. The experimental class applied to the model class through games and the comparative class was mainly taught textbooks for the verification of the hypothesis. The results of this study are as follows:
First, games could motivate students, maintain the interest and improve confidence in learning English.
Second, the experimental class superior to the comparative class in listening and speaking ability.
Third, through the learner-centered group activities, dull students could improve their achievement desire, and extend their communicative competence.
Some conclusions are that teaching English through games not only gives more interest and a stable condition to students by making learners overcome shyness, but also it showed them the most effective method to improve listening and speaking ability and induce interest and motivation. Therefore, to maximize the effects from gaines in the English class, teachers must consider the tendency of learner's interest or achievement in games and use the most appropriate forms and types of game according to those situations. It is also an important project for English teachers to continually develop various games which are effective in creating learner's interest as well as their achievement.