People always said, ‘Language learning is hard work’, so effort is required at every moment and must be maintained over a long period of time. In this situation, games are used to help and encourage many learners to sustain their interest and work. Games also could help the teacher to create context in which the language is useful and meaningful especially in learning vocabulary. The learners are request to take part and in order to do so, they must understand what others are saying or have written, and they must speak or write in order to express their own point of view or give information. So, by this way, they are not even improve their vocabulary, but they are also improving their communication skills. Nevertheless, the need for meaningfulness in language learning has been accepted for some years. A useful interpretation of meaningful is that the learners respond to the content in a definite way. If they are amused, angered, intrigued or surprised the content is clearly meaningful to them. Thus the meaning of the language they listen to, read, speak and write will be more vividly experienced and, therefore, better remembered and this is how the games work.
Vocabulary learning is a hard task which can sometimes be frustrating especially for form one students. Constant effort is required to understand, produce and manipulate the target language. Well-chosen games are invaluable as they give students a break and at the same time challenging. Furthermore, they employ meaningful and useful language in real contexts.
They also encourage and increase cooperation. Games are highly motivating because they are amusing and interesting. They can be used to give practice in learning vocabulary or even to practice in all language skills and be used to practice many types of communication. If it is accepted that games can provide intense and meaningful practice of language, then they must be regarded as central to a teacher’s repertoire. They are thus not for use...