Creative Adaptation Technique in Audio-Lingual Method

23 “Students were very happy when they heard the word “game” although they said “I don’t want this assignment” in the end, but actually most students are prefer to choose game for their vocabulary learning. Game also helps the teacher to do a classroom control.” This technique was strengthened by Uberman 1998 in Nation 2008, who stated that games can lower anxiety that will make students have better acquisition. Games are motivating and entertaining the learners. Games also give a chance for unconfident students to speak up and express their feelings or ideas. It was also strengthened by what the teacher research foundn.d stated that games not only give fun in teaching and learning process, but also gives opportunity to review the term in nonthreatening way. Games can reduce anxiety, give highly motivational, interesting, and comprehensible Richard-Amato, 1995. From my interview with Miss Rosa, the teacher should know the characters of the students first before the teacher create a game. Her opinion it shown below: Extract 2 interview with Miss Rosa, March 2, 2012 “When we give a game for students, we should know the character of the class itself. For example at Laboratorium Elementary School, class 1A is more active than class 1B so the teachers give different game for each class. The kinds of game which are used are “Jumping the Line negative and positive zone for True False questions, Emotion reading the students do the actions based on the situation, if angry said it with angry face, etc.” The result of using game for teaching vocabulary at Laboratorium Elementary School is students are easier to learn new words meaning from playing a game and the period of saving the new vocabulary is longer. - Using Songs Below is the transcript of the interview with the teachers: Extract 1 interview with Miss Debora, February 23, 2012 “I usually teach vocabulary for my students by singing and ask them to memorize new words in rhyming. What I mean is students will follow the rhyme of a song and fill in the blank. Students will easy and interested in learning vocabulary besides that it is to avoid the boringness.” Extract 2 interview with Miss Rosa, March 2, 2012