Why teaching english through games?

Most children see life in terms of games. As teachers, we need to recognize and go along with the basic fact, and give games a central role in our classes. If learning itself feels like a game, and if the children feel they are discovering a fascinating new world of English through games they would also enjoy outside the classroom, it is much more likely the children will take what they learn home with them and use it in their daily lives. Games also provide a nonthreatening environment for coping with new learning. When children having fun, they are more likely to take risks, make mistakes without having feelings of failure, and try to overcome their initial feelings of confusion when they encounter new words and patterns.

A child who encounters a new English word, expression, or pattern while she is immersed in a game, is far more motivated to learn it and much more likely to internalize it than a child who receives the new knowledge from her teacher verbally. The purpose of applying games technique is to provide fun learning so that students will learn unconsciously.