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games can be best for students in all level and all skills in learning English language.
b. The Disadvantage of Using Games
However, using games have some disadvantagesin teaching and learning English, as follows:
1. If the game is simple for fun and not linked to educational goals it may not the
best use of your time. 2.
Using games in the classroom sometime fails due to the lack of cooperation among members of the class.
3. While playing games, students usually speak in their mother tongue to discuss
instead of the language they are learning.
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On the other hand, Stephen Mark Silver stated that ―many teachers still feel
that games should be used only for a short time, to give the class a break from the monotory of drilling, and some teacher consider games a merely frivolous
activity‖
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From the statement above, the writer conclude that disadvantages of using game in learning language can be occurred in teaching and learning English
language. Most teacher uses game only for a part of time, and some teacher consider games a merely frivolous activity, game usually makes a noise. Besides
it, games are hard to apply in a big class because some the materials can not be communicatedusing game.
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Khoaanh.net Resource Center for English, Teaching and Learning, 2013, http:www. khoaanh.net.
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Stephen Mark Silver,‖Games for the Classroom and English – Speaking Group‖, English Teaching Forum, Vol.XX, April 1982, p.29.
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D. Arrage Word Game
According to Elayne Masters, teachers can fill a vocabulary lesson plan with a variety of learning resources, including games, workshops, and other
activities. The goal is to make learning vocabulary fun.
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This statement inspired the writer to make a game for language teaching.
As it has already been mentioned in the first chapter, one of the games that the writer has made is ―arrange word game‖. Arrange word game is the game
which the words are jumbles, and the teacher asks the students to arrange the jumble word into a complete sentence as much as possible.
The writer think, this game is very useful for making students‘ easy
understanding the passive voice simple present tense. To make it clearly the writer tries to make the procedures in using arrange word game as follow:
a. Firstly, the teacher explains passive voice of simple present tense by
which give some formula to make them understand how to arrange games based on the alternative given.
b. The teacher asks the student whether the students have any question or
not.
c. The teacher presents many jumble words to the students, which is
maintained to avoid students error while done the assignment as example bellow:
1.
2.
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Elayne Masters, Create Fun Vocabulary Lesson with Word Game. This article is accessed on December01, 2008 from http:www.suite101.comcontentcreate-fun-vocabulary-
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