Language games.

Language games are activities that are used to promote and improve communication. As we can see, “language experience activities involve planned, purposeful “doing and talking” together, which will be followed by writing and reading about the experience”, so with these games course is given for different activities of another area, like writing and reading. Children must speak during the game with their classmates. The aim is to make sense of what they are talking about and to have a conversation with the others.

     Language games are useful for everyone who wants to speak another language, because they will get on with it. It is better to use games, specially with children, when you are teaching something that will be difficult for them, as the writers say in Games for Language Learning “games help and encourage many learners to sustain their interest and work”(Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby, Cambridge University Press, 2006). With these language games they will talk in an interesting and funny way. These activities will help the pupils to work the grammar, the vocabulary and mainly the fluency of the new langauge. It is not difficult to find books that can help a teacher in this field, for example 101 Language Games for Children, Games for Language Learning or Games for Second Language Learning. Language games have some objetives, “encourage appreciation for language, foster creativity, increase vocabulary, develop fluency and improve speaking skills”(Paul Rooyackers, Hunter House, 2002) For me the most important aim is, to improve speaking skills, they must know how to express their ideas when they are talking. But in the other hand I must say that all of them are essential aims for learning a new languge.

     To sum up, language games are done for learning in an enjoyable and funny way the communication area. In my opinion, these games must be work in class because it is  a way where the children learn and improve their second language.

References:

- http://literacyonline.tki.org.nz/Literacy-Online/Teacher-needs/Reviewed-resources/Reading/Comprehension/ELP-Years-1-4/Language-experience-activities

- Paul Rooyackers: 101 Language Games for Children. Hunter House: 2002.

- Andrew Wright, David Betteridge, Michael Buckby: Games for Language Learning. Cambridge University Press: 2006.