Abstract-The research of "The Development of Vocabulary Memorization by Using Games" has the objective to compare a learning achievement between pre-learning and post-learning by using games. The target used in data collection was upper primary education students studying English clubs for 7 weeks. Instructors selected 5 categories of words, namely items in school, clothing, food, occupation and weather, emphasizing on memorization by using games such as bingo, crossword puzzle, word matching and picture and word spelling. A test was conducted before and after instructions using the same test paper.From the study results, it is found that an average testing score in pre-learning and post-learning in word and items in school categories are different with statistical significance at 0.05. Moreover, when considering the average scores in each word categories, it is found that the average score of test papers in mixed word and weather having an average testing scores in pre-learning higher than post-learning; the other has the average testing scores lower in pre-learning lower that post-learning. IndexTerms-Vocabulary memorization, teaching vocabulary, vocabulary acquisition, ESL. I. INTRODUCTIONIn the age of technology and information, language is an important media in transferring data and to be a media between human, especially English language which is considered to be the World English, people around the world can communicate by using English as main language; therefore, English is determined to be a basic language to be taught in education institute.Words are an element that is considered to be the heart of language. Many words to be learned by learners and to be able to use correctly in listening, speaking and writing skills could help in learning English well.Learning English according to the Basic Education Curriculum of Ministry of Education in learning English. T. Huckin and J. Coady mentioned an importance of words that the learning of words is necessary and it is necessary to ability in comprehensive reading in every education level of English language learners to be a first language and second language [1].The more higher education level, the more necessity in word learning is needed. As for the instruction in English of Thai students, it is found that there are problems related to words all along; the problems can be noticed from the Manuscript received December 25, 2014; revised February10, 2015 students who are unable to read the word correctly. Those students are only relied on principles taught by instructors, causing problems in pronunciation and other following problems, namely lacking of confidence in reading or speaking English and permanence in word memorization; as the aforementioned examples, it could be said that the development of ability related to English words is necessary and significantly important, helping learners to accumulate better standard proficiency in English. Instruction in English has many types of media that could be used in teaching. Games are the one of the interesting ...
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