Using Language Games to Enhance Oral Communication Form 4 Students

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USING LANGUAGE GAMES TO ENHANCE ORAL COMMUNICATION FORM 4

STUDENTS (WEAK CLASS)

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

To achieve the objectives of this study, there are a few research questions

that need to be answered.

1) How language games are effective in the teaching of oral skills in weak class?

2) How effective are language games in motivating the students oral skills?

1.Purpose Of Study

Most of the students in upper secondary level (weak class) are reluctant to

communicate or speak during English Lesson. This is because they are shy and

lacking of exposure in the language. Moreover, most of them came from the

vernacular schools such as Chinese and Tamil primary vernacular schools. By using

the language games it can help to enhance and improve their oral communication

skill in secondary school. That is why language games are chosen to help the

teacher in their teaching and learning activities and also to motivate students in oral

communication.

Rationale.

Why use language games for improving oral communication?

There are two reasons why language games are used .They are:-

1. To motivate and encourage students to learn English as well to make the

lesson enjoyable.

2. To enhance the teaching impact.


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AIMS

1. To encourage and motivate students performance in English

2. To create a friendly and enjoyable environment.

3. To make students feel more ease and relaxed to use the language.

1.1 OBJECTIVES.

To prepare students for effective listening and speaking.

To increase students interest in learning English language.

To make students feel confident in using the target language.

To enable teacher to access and improve the skills and ability the students

to communicate in English.

At the beginning of my career 9 years ago as a primary teacher in rural school

and 6 years in upper secondary, I taught English as the way Ive learned. I used

most of the Structural Approach such as Grammar Translation, Audio Lingual

Method, Drilling and practice in my teaching lesson. I found it most of my student

feel exhausted due to this method. Although they able to write a few good

sentences in English, when it comes to speaking skills they turn of their tongue.

The English Language Syllabus (KBSM Form 4 2003) secondary school level

has formulated to cover the four main skills, mainly Listening, Speaking, Reading

and Writing. According to Gaudart (1996) the inability of second language

children to interact orally is a major concern of researches to communicate in the

English Language. This is because they are lack of confidence, probably due to

their social background where English is seldom or hardly used as the medium of


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communication. Apart from that their mother tongue or L1 plays important role in

their daily lives.

Literature review.

According to Pivec & Dziabenko 2010 The learning process should be

interesting ,easy and it should be fun to learn, It also should fit with everyday task

and the working environment in order to achieve optimum results. This means

that it is important to give prominence on the games to make communication

successful rather than on the perfection or accuracy of the language. Therefore

game should be integrated as a part of the language syllabus because they can

help student to sustain the effort of learning.

Hence, this article is to show how language games can be used to teach oral

communication more meritoriously.

According to Gaudart (1996) the inability of second language children to

interact orally is a major concern of researches to communicate in the English

Language. This is because they are lack of confidence, probably due to their

social background where English is seldom or hardly used as the medium of

communication. Apart from that their mother tongue or L1 plays important role in

their daily lives.

Decline.

Although using language games is a good strategy in the process of

teaching the English Language, it has 2 disadvantages. They are:-


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1. According to Lee,S.K. (1995), having fun and laughter is not really

learning. As the common perception is that learning should be serious and

solemn in nature. This is due to the fear that the classroom would be noisy

and seems out of control when games are being carried out during the

lesson.

2. Rixon, (1981) added that preparation of materials for games especially if

the class is large; thus causing students to have very limited opportunities

to take part. This may cause some disciplinary problems in the class.

Games are handled with fun.

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Using Language Games to Enhance Oral Communication Form 4 Students