USING GAMES IN TEACHING VOCABULARY TO YOUNG LEARNERS

Abstract

Over the last few decades, teaching English become a phenomenon in Uzbekistan, especially to young learners. English is taught as a main subject in kindergarten and elementary schools. Like any other children, they accept new foreign languages easily, but they get bored very fast if the teacher is teaching them using the old conventional methods and techniques. Teachers are responsible for finding out interesting and attractive ways to teach and motivate their students. The aim of this paper is to prove that games are effective tools when devised to explain vocabularies and they make it easier to remember their meanings.