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provide encourages students to be unafraid to talk, which practices their fluency, a valuable communication
skill.
Because of this fact it is vitally important for teachers to create a positive learning environment, and
to try to spark interest amongst their students both in the foreign language and culture because that is
important to a successful language learning process. Games help achieve these goals as they help satisfy
the requirement of the national curriculum that language learning should be enjoyable for students.
Teaching today has changed a lot over the past years. Once it was all about learners being passive
and listening in the classroom, but today learners are usually much more active in the classroom, and what
better way to be
active than by playing games
.
Teachers can help sustain diversity in a variety of ways, for example by using activities that require
students to be creative in thinking and by emphasizing individual learning and cooperative learning equally.
A more specific way that teachers can use in order to keep diversity within the classroom is to not be afraid
of using games as a teaching method along with other methods. According to the national curriculum games
can be a good teaching method and games, such as role playing games, imitation games, theatrical
expression and problem solving activities are especially fitting for all stages of language learning.
