A Study on Effectiveness of Teaching Vocabulary through Language Games

Abstract

The present research work entitled A Study on Effectiveness of Teaching Vocabulary through Language Games has been carried out to find out the effectiveness of games while teaching vocabulary. The study was carried out considering the significance of games in teaching vocabulary. The primary data was collected from the forty two students studying in grade four from a government aided School “Shree Guhyeshwori Bal Shiksha Secondary School,Thapathali, Kathmandu.The data were collected by using experimental research design.The study showed that using language games technique in teaching vocabulary has relatively better impact on the whole. It showed that teaching vocabulary by using language games was 12.84%average percentage more effective than teaching with usual class room technique. It is recommended that using language games technique in teaching vocabulary is more effective rather than teaching vocabulary with usual classroom technique. So language games technique should be used to teach vocabulary items in all the schools while teaching vocabulary. This thesis consists of four chapters. Chapter one deals with introduction, review of the related literature, objectives and significance of the study. Chapter two deals with the procedures adopted to carry out the research. It contains information about the sources of data, population of study, tools,process of data collection and limitations of the study.Chapter three consists of analysis and interpretation of the collected data. And chapter four deals with the major findings of the study derived on the basis of analysis and interpretation of the collected data and followed by references and appendices.