| Teaching English grammar can be hard going - for the | | | | Four sound reasons to teach grammar with games |
| teacher and the students. It doesn't have to be difficult | | | | 1. Arif Saricoban and Esen Metin, authors of "Songs, |
| or painful, however. You can teach English grammar | | | | Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar" explain |
| using fun learning games and before you know it your | | | | how and why games work for teaching grammar in |
| students will be more than willing. How does it work, | | | | an ESL classroom. They say, "Games and |
| you ask. Well, there has been a movement away | | | | problem-solving activities, which are task-based and |
| from the traditional methods of teaching English | | | | have a purpose beyond the production of correct |
| grammar through writing, rewriting and worksheets to | | | | speech, are the examples of the most preferable |
| using a more active approach through games. | | | | communicative activities." They go on to explain that |
| Researchers have also begun to look at how and | | | | grammar games help children not only gain knowledge |
| why these new methods work. | | | | but be able to apply and use that learning. |