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1.Introduction It is not a long history thatEnglish is taught as a subject in primary school in our country. Primary Englishteaching syllabus points out, the main instructional aim of teaching English inprimary school is to cultivate pupils’ basic abilities of their listening andspeaking and their good sense of the English language. copyright paper51.com Our boysand girls are exposed to English for the first time in primary school. Andnaturally it is very necessary to develop their strong interest in English.Many foreign language educators emphasized particularly the importance ofstudents’ study interests. The greatest educator Confucius said, ‘teachingstudents in accordance with their aptitude.’(Huang Yufeng, 1999: 47) Hebelieved that learning should be a process of exploring and understanding ofone’s own initiative. Playing games is a good way to achieve this goal inprimary school. Game conforms to the psychological and physiologicalcharacteristics of children. Game can help the students practise all kinds oflanguage skills and many types of communication. In this paper, the importanceand application of game will be further discussed in English teaching ofprimary school. http://www.paper51.com 2.English game teaching http://www.paper51.com 2.1Definition of game paper51.com
What is game? The answer given bythe Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners goes like this. A gameis an organized activity that usually has the following meanings： http://www.paper51.com
"A: an activity thatyou do for fun that has rules, and that you can win or lose; 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com B: a type of sport; 内容来自www.paper51.com C: particular competition; 内容来自www.paper51.com
a particular event in which people take part in a competition. http://www.paper51.com D: activity like a gameetc." 内容来自论文无忧网 www.paper51.com
Games involve many factors: rulers,competition, relaxation and learning. Game teaching is a kind of teachingactivity in which game is involved in real classroom teaching. And the mainfunction of using game in class is to help students learn and have fun. copyright paper51.com 2.2Characteristics of children 内容来自www.paper51.com Young children’s attention can beeasy taken but it is difficult to keep it throughout the whole class. Then theteacher should have the ability and enthusiasm to design different activities toattract their attention. Children are naturally curious and active. They arefull of enthusiasm and often show a lot of eagerness to participate. Ifchildren fell secure and happy in a free environment, they are more likely toenjoy English. It’s often said that children’s attention span is short but wesometimes find small children can concentrate on one certain thing for a fairlylong time but not on other things. Therefore, it really depends on what they doand whether they are interested. Children will not concentrate long if theteacher keeps lecturing them! This means we need to consider how to create areal desire for children to learn English; we need to provide opportunities forchildren to experience the new languages; and the role of the teacher inplaying game is to guide well. 内容来自www.paper51.com Children like playing very much. Wecan guide them to study English through playing games. Because playing games isthe children’s nature. On one hand, they are happy while playing games. On theother hand, in learning, if they take an active part in games, they will learnthe language with interest and joy. Zhu Xi (Zhu Xi, a theoretician in SongDynasty in China) once said, “one must beunwilling to learn if the instruction shows no interests in it.”(Li Jun, 1999: 23) So, in teaching, I think, by use of game approach, it willbe possible to organize class in a vivid and interesting way. copyright paper51.com |