The Effectiveness of Language Games Inteaching Writing Skill

Abstract

Thisresearch entitledEffectiveness ofLanguage Games in TeachingWriting Skillaimed at finding the effectiveness of language games in teachingwriting skill. I administereda set ofteststo collect data for conducting theresearch. In order to collect data Iselecteda schoolby purposive non-randomsampling procedure.I divided theclass nine studentsof the schoolinto twogroups.After that,pre-test wasadministered.The Experimentalgroup wastaught through language games andthecontrolled group was taught withoutusing language games.Experiment was carried out for four weeks. After that,post-test was administered. The data obtained from both the tests i.e. pre-testand post-test were analyzed and discussed to find out the effect of languagegames in teaching writing skill. From the analysis and discussion of the datathe research findings were derived. The research findings showedthat teachingwriting skill with language games was more effective than teaching writingskill without using language games. Thus,the presentstudy concludes that theuse of language games can play positive role in teaching writing skill. The study consists of five chapters. Chapter one deals withintroduction. Itconsists of background, statement of theproblems, rationale andobjectives ofthe study, researchquestions, significance and delimitationsof the study andoperational definitions of the key terms. Similarly, chapter two consists of thereview of related literature and conceptual framework. It deals with review ofrelated theoretical and empiricalliterature, implicationof the reviewfor thestudy, and conceptual framework. Likewise, chapter three presents methodsand procedures of the study. This includes design of the study, population andsample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, and data collectionprocedure. In the same way, chapter four consists of results anddiscussion ofthe data. Finally, chapter five incorporates summary, conclusion, andimplications. On the basis of results and discussion, some important findingsand implication for the policy level, practice level and further research havebeen made. This chapter is followed by references and appendices.