Designing Activities Based On the Field Of Outdoor Games For Teaching Language At The College Level

Abstract

At the college level it is very difficult to make the students to get involved into a task because of so many reasons. It is essential to establish a situation in the class room that could create a favorable frame of mind for the students to co-operate and collaborate voluntarily in the activity of imparting speaking and listening skills. Regular outdoor games are one of the potential arenas for the incorporation in order to achieve effective communication practice.

During the last few decades, so many methods considered to be suitable for effective second language teaching have been coming up. They include the popular methods like Grammar-Translation Method, Natural Method, Phonetic Method, Direct Method, Communicative Language Teaching, Immersion Programs, Audio-lingual Method, cognitive based approaches, Total Physical Response (TPR) and many others. It is also the notion of the experts of the field that it is difficult to establish a particular method as the most effective one or the best one for a particular language or a particular group of people. However, the reason for the development of these methods can be so many but one important aspect is achieving total involvement of the students in the process of language learning. This document attempts to suggest one possible way of achieving total involvement of the students through a designed activity for language learning.