Teachers’ Perspective on the Use of Games in English Teaching and
Learning Process: A Study at Bethany Elementary School
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Dessy Kristanti
112010111
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
Teachers’ Perspective on the Use of Games in English Teaching and
Learning Process: A Study at Bethany Elementary School
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Dessy Kristanti
112010111
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
Teachers’ Perspective on the Use of Games in English Teaching and
Learning Process: A Study at Bethany Elementary School
THESIS
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of
Sarjana Pendidikan
Dessy Kristanti
112010111
ENGLISH TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM
FACULTY OF LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SATYA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
SALATIGA
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Teacher’s Perspective on
the Use of Games in English
Teaching& Learning Process: A study at Bethany Elementary
School
study was conducted in the first and the second grade of Bethany Elementary School Salatiga, with two participants of English teachers. Observation and interviews were used as instruments of data collection. The findings show that there were six types of games, which are Order; Connect: compare, match, group; Do: move, mime, draw, obey; Remember; Identify: discriminate,guess, speculate and Create found used by the teachers. In addition, the
findings also indicate that teachers have positive perception towards games, since they can contribute to improve the students‟ language skills, build their grammar understanding, engage the students to learn the lesson, help them to expand their vocabulary and help the teachers to see the students‟ actual ability. However, the observed teachers also view that games can be boring and time consuming. Games are also demanding in terms of background knowledge and giving difficulty for the teachers to control the classroom management. Therefore, the observed teachers gave some sugggestion to
minimize the problems.
