Teaching vocabulary by using games to young learner
Teaching vocabulary to young learners as mentioned above is not easy.
Young learners have special characteristics so they need more attention. It is
different from teaching adults. Vocabulary is list of words with their meaning
and it also consists of collection of words. There are many words that children
have to understand and remember. To help the children easy to remind and
understand the words, the teacher should be creative. He or she has to find a suitable method and interesting
activities to make them enjoy when they are learning.
According to vale and Feunteun (1998:2) children have a lot of special
characteristics in learning. Children as young learners have special needs.
They will learn best if they are participated and their work are appreciated and they have an
opportunity to experience and experiment by themselves. Children are like
playing, so it is more useful if the teacher uses games as a method in teaching
vocabulary to young learners. Games are interesting activities that will make
the students enjoy and easy to acquire the lessons. The best interesting
activities that the teacher can use to teach vocabulary to young learners is
game. Aydan Ersoz stated that games are motivating the children in learning
vocabulary because games are very interesting and amusing. Games are not only used in teaching vocabulary but also in
all language skills and many types of communication.
According to Lee Su Kim, there are many advantages of using games
in the classroom:
• Games can break the
usual routine of the language class.
• Games can motivate and
challenge the children in learning process.
• In learning a language
needs an effort. Games help the
students to make the effort of learning a language.8
• Games are providing
the students to practice in the four skills of English that are speaking,
reading, writing, and listening.
• Games help the
students to interact and
communicate.
• Games create a
meaningful context in using language. In choosing a game, the teacher have to
consider some things such as time, material, the topic of the lessons, and the
students it self. In this case, the writer has specified what game that is
suitable for 4th grade students to learn vocabulary easily.
Glossary:
Suitable :
pantas/cocok
Appreciated :
menghargai
Amusing :
lucu
Routine :
kebiasaan sehari-hari
Effort :
usaha/upaya
Interact :
bergaul
Exercise:
Improve your vocabulary by complete
the vocab crossword that you watch in the video here
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