2.7.2 . Vocabularies' games time According to Lee (1979) each game has a goal, and a teacher should recognize it. A class shouldn’t be teacher based all the time, instead sometimes it's better to give power to the students. Based on his idea, there are some issues that a teacher should keep in his mind when it comes to using vocabulary games such as:
1.Whenever a teacher feels that students don’t have an interest, a language game can be a power source for serious language work.
2.When tiredness takes place and students don’t want to continue more, games can recharge their soul.
3.Most of the time, students don’t want to participate in a group so when there is a lack of …show more content…
Unfortunately, some teachers would neglect its usefulness but as Betteridge and Buckby (2005) stated games should be seen as meaningful practice of language, which can be exploited as follows –ups of the present teaching material in order to practice and reinforce the required skills, knowledge or for revising and recycling already acquired skills and knowledge it can act as a tool for discovering student's weaknesses in their language proficiency. Girmen (2012) stated that choosing and using an educational game is very hard work for teachers. He should keep in his mind that some issues like: the number of students, proficiency, cultural context, timing, learning topic can influence on learners. Games help a teacher to create contexts According to the students level that make language useful and meaningful. Liao and Chen (2012) stated that games are like building blocks, which can boost learner's lexical growth and retention the most important part in learning a language is memorization of the target language words. However, the problem is that these words might not be correctly recalled over a long period of time Parle (2006) stated that this is related to human mind which a daily word would easily be remembered but others not. He defined memory as the process of encoding, saving and …show more content…
He added sensory memory deals with the things that eyes can see and ears can hear, but this memory is very limited in capacity and cannot be prolonged by rehearsal. Short-term memory deals with the information perceived in an active and reality which is available for a learner. He stated that this kind of memory is like sensory memory in being limited, but the capacity can be increased by using some techniques. Long-term memory is larger in capacity, and words would be curved inside