Motivation In Language

Learners of English have to deal with unfamiliar vocabulary during their language acquisition. Motivation is considered one of the essential factors in language learning. Lightbown and Spada (1999) emphasize the importance of motivation and also emphasize that the principal way that teachers can influence learners’ motivation is by making the classroom a supportive environment in which students are stimulated, and engaged in the activities. Although, motivated learners have a better opportunity for learning vocabulary successfully; unmotivated ones will have a lesser chance of being successful. So, for improving learners’ learning vocabulary, they need to be motivated by playing a game to complete the task, and with the enjoyment achieved, learning the Lexis occurs smoothly (Moon, 2000). If we bring games to language classrooms, we create a relaxed atmosphere which plays a role in students' remembering things faster and better (Wierus and Wierus, 1994). Therefore, learning new vocabulary through enjoyable and out of the ordinary ways may assist the learners to learn vocabulary. Charlton et al. (2005) identified one means of increasing student motivation to actively participate in word study activities as disguising instruction as play by using word games.

Game is a planned activity that commonly has the following properties:

1. A definite task or objective

2. A group of rules

3. A competition between