GAMES AS AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF DEVELOPING YOUNG LEARNERS’ COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS

Аннотация

Teaching English to young learners is a rapidly growing field around the world and the main goal of teaching young learners is to encourage children to use the target language in their life and improve their communicative skills, competency and culture using different effective ways of teaching English. Therefore, at the lessons of foreign languages the teachers are using some strategies, which encourage pupils to be active participants of the lessons, focusing on developing their communicative skills, forming their interest and motivation to study the language, as well as trying to have their language learners speak proficiently and independently in various situations. So, this article deals with the ways and role of using different types games in teaching speaking in English to young learners. As young children are very imaginative and learn more if they are enjoying what they are doing, games are considered a very effective and beneficial way of learning a foreign language. KEYWORDS Young learners, communicative approach, types of games, communicative skills, competency, culture, primary classes, language acquisition, cognitive development, language skills, speaking.