• Mustafa ŞEVİK

  Author

Games are regarded as fundamental part of foreign language education and as a
central tenet of good language teaching at all levels but particularly at the primary stage.
However, it is possible to argue that games are not being used frequently and effectively in the
Turkish government schools for the teaching of EFL. As a result Ministry of National
Education’s (MNE) objectives to be communicative and to teach grammar through games are
not being fulfilled. When carefully planned, games offer the advantages of both Audio Lingual
Method and Communicative Language Teaching. Therefore, using games more frequently in
EFL contexts in Turkey will help us fulfill the neglected communicative objectives set by the
MNE. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of using games in
the teaching of grammar in secondary school EFL contexts in Turkey. An experimental research
design was used as the chief research design. Two identical 6th grade classes (n=60) were
chosen as experimental and control groups. The results demonstrated that the experimental
group scored significantly higher compared to the control group. Thus, we may come to the
conclusion that that using games have positive effects on teaching grammar to 6th grade
secondary school students in EFL contexts in Turkey.

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