An Application of Game Teaching Approach in Primary School English Vocabulary Teaching—A Case Study of Wenzhou Jingshan Primary School

摘要

Vocabulary is a key to English learning. How to memorize words effectively has become a heated topic among teach-ers and students. Since primary school is the initial stage of English learning, it is imperative to cultivate students'interest in English and find a useful way of learning vocabulary. The study aims to prove that game teaching approach as a commonly used teaching approach can motivate students'interest and assist English teaching if it is combined with vocabulary teaching proper-ly. In the study, 70 students of Grade four were randomly chosen from Wenzhou Jingshan primary school as the subjects, class 1 as the experimental group while Class 2 as the control one. The results show that game teaching approach applied in English vo-cabulary teaching can help students learn vocabulary more efficiently than traditional vocabulary teaching method.