The Influence of Language Games on Students’ Learning Outcomes in English Vocabularies in Early Grades

Abstract

Vocabularies are considered as the most commanding component for anyforeign language learning such as English. Despite the importance ofvocabularies, they are being taught in a customary, conventional anduninterested manner in government schools of Pakistan. On the otherhand, in teaching English vocabularies specially to younglearners/students, Language games are being used globally. The purposeof this study was based on influence of language games with observedvariable of students’ learning outcomes with English vocabularies.Quasi-Experimental of pure quantitative type was adopted as beingsuitable with the nature of the study. Nonrandomized control group pretest post-test design was selected for this study. Through convenientsampling, the population of the study was delimited to one governmentschool of Quetta city. The data collecting tool was a teacher made test.Class three stuednts were divided into two groups comrasing thirtystudents in each. Customary and game pedagogy were used to teachEnglish vocabularies for six weeks. Using SPSS 23 version, the data wasanalysedby simple descriptive and inferential statistics. It was concludedthrough the findings that in teaching English vocabularies, languagegames have a substantial influence on students’ learning outcomes.