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Using Games as a Tool in Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners

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  • Sahar Bakhsh

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Over the last few decades, teaching English become a phenomenon in Saudi Arabia, especially to young learners. English is taught as a main subject in kindergarten and elementary schools. Like any other children, Saudis accept new foreign languages easily, but they get bored very fast if the teacher is teaching them using the old conventional methods and techniques. The aim of this paper is to prove that games are effective tools when devised to explain vocabularies and they make it easier to remember their meanings. This paper deals with a literature review of teaching English vocabulary to young learners using games. Then it discusses the importance of using games in teaching vocabulary and in what way using them is helpful. After that it investigates the practical implications of using games to teach vocabulary that includes the implementation of vocabulary games and some examples of games that could be used to teach vocabulary to children. And finally it examines challenges teachers face when teaching vocabulary using games to young learners.

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  • Sahar Bakhsh, 2016. "Using Games as a Tool in Teaching Vocabulary to Young Learners," English Language Teaching, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 9(7), pages 120-120, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibn:eltjnl:v:9:y:2016:i:7:p:120
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    1. Sultan Alhatmi, 2022. "Word Instruction Techniques in Saudi EFL Classrooms: Their Use and Perceived Usefulness by Teachers," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(3), pages 21582440221, September.
    2. Kirubah Rajendran & Hema Rosheney Bt Mustafa, 2023. "Vocabulary Acquisition through Graded Captioned Videos among Lower Proficiency Second Language Learners," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 7(8), pages 1269-1286, August.

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