The Intervention of Physical Games in Teaching English Grammar to Secondary School Students: A Review with Special Reference to the Secondary School Pupil in Puducherry, India.

Smrutisikta Mishra ,V Jeyasakthi ,K Velmurugan

doi:10.17762/pae.v58i2.1547

Abstract

Language is the primary means of human communication and Grammar is a significant feature of it to be excelled with. The teaching of English Grammar has evolved through phases from Grammar Translation Method to Computer Assisted Language Learning and deductive and inductive methods. Though English teachers attempt various methods to teach grammar, children tend to play rather than sit tight in class.Thus, there are considerable recent studies involving various indoor and outdoor games to teach English Grammar effectively. This current paper aims to bring to light the importance and efficacy of involving physical games to teach grammar to secondary school children. Games make children physically active and mentally alert. Things learned through games are unconsciouslycaptured and never forgotten. This paper focuses on the advantages of involving physical games to teach grammar to highly active teenagers and track their gradual increase in optimism towards learning a second language.

Highlights

In multilingual countries like India, English has gained the honour of being the official language, library language, and many others
The following graph depicts the percentage of Teachers who have Agreed (A), Strongly agreed(SA), and the Averaged agreement(AV) to all the statements, which shows that majority of the teachers are using games to teach grammar in their classes, and find it to be an effective way of language learning
The following draft shows the percentage of popularity and strong agreement (SA) statement wise,where S-12 enjoys highly strong agreement among all teachers (40% average) and S-07 is at 26.65%,which shows that games are the best methods to employ to each student for efficient language learning

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Introduction

In multilingual countries like India, English has gained the honour of being the official language, library language, and many others. Learning English as a foreign language remained a challenging task for the second language learners and for the non-native teachers. Children possess a soaring potential to learn and acquire any foreign language than the other learners learning a new language after childhood (McLaughlin, 1984). Children are eminent for their natural language acquisition competence and they cannot be exposed to serious learning always (Dunn, 2016). It has to be included in education with slight modifications in the pedagogic styles by efficient teachers. Games in education are gaining fame and importance in due course of time

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