Effects of instructional games on facilitating of students' vocabulary learning

Teaching a new language to the young learners of other languages can be considered as a
challenging job while it can be facilitated by applying some instructional games. This small and case
study was conducted to identify the role of the games and level of vocabulary learning among 70
female students in the age of 12- 13 years old students were selected from Bu-Ali one of the Iranian
primary schools in Urmia, Iran. The employment of pretest and posttest instruments allows instructors
a single opportunity to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of their instruction and assess the
acquisition of course content material by students through formative assessment. After analyzing the
pre-test and post-test it was found that applying games has the important and determine role in
teaching vocabularies to the language learners, as it was not possible as well as learning with just
repetition and memorizing methods. Moreover, Game has its potential as an educational tool for
literary training; and can motivate and engage learners especially the quiet and passive ones in the
whole learning process