IMPLEMENTING ENJOYABLE LEARNING STRATEGY WITH WORDWALL IN THE EFL CLASSROOM

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the innovative, alternative tools of teaching vocabulary in EFL classroom and offers teachers the general outline of an online platform Wordwall. Teaching online has become more popular, yet challenging, for many students and teachers. The author considers games to be a source of fresh ideas with the ability to relieve the monotony of education. Alongside traditional vocabulary presentations, games play a very important role in language teaching and learning. Moreover, games are a good way to raise students’ motivation for learning English as a foreign language and to improve and extend learning skills, which is essential for language learning. The evidence shows that online games significantly diversify the entire educational process. Based on our teaching experience, we can state that introducing vocabulary through online games greatly facilitates students’ understanding, raises their engagement into the lesson, makes them interested to advance in their learning, provides new ideas and brings variety into the classroom. Wordwall provides teachers with plenty of templates, ranging from the common multiple-choice quiz to matching pairs, anagram, sorting out, or cloze questions. Teachers can create resources and host activities by sharing an assignment link with students. Students can do the activities as an interactive in-class part or as homework. Students’ activity results can be tracked by the teacher.