Teaching Learning with Advanturer Game

Teaching English through Adventurer Games

English is an international language that  is used almost in every country. The growing of English an as international language is difficult to be denied. English is used in every sector such industry, trade, education and so on. Considering the important role of English in human resources development, the government includes English in the educational curriculum as an primarily school subject. It means the students are required to have skills in English; speaking, reading, listening, and writing. Teaching that skills, there are many ways which are delivered. One of them is using video games due to the fact that it has   edutainment aspects which motivate the students for learning English and help students get fun while learning English, and the most suitable video game for teaching English is Adventurer Games.

The adventurer games are kind of video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The adventurer games contain conversations, narratives, and rules. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. The entire adventurer games have been already on the internet and it is played by online, so it is such appropriate way that good for teaching English.

First, the adventurer games program student’s brain with good English. When student play an adventure game, they have contact with a large number of correct sentences in real, conversational English. These sentences are not only spoken (as on TV). In many adventure games, students can also turn on subtitles. If students do, they will hear the pronunciation and see the spelling at the same time. In effect, the sentences stick in their head more strongly, and they gain the ability to produce similar sentences.

In the same way, the adventure games help students add their vocabularies. All of the words on that game is written in English .For instance , the rules are written in English. So , the players ( students) will pay big attention upon the game Indirectly, they have tried to find out and comprehend the meaning of words through the rules .

In addition, the adventurer game gives understanding of spoken English. In modern adventure games, students can hear all the characters speak real English. The dialogue is easier to understand than in movies: it is slower, clearer, and they can often stop the action and listen to a phrase again.

'           In brief, teaching english through  adventurer games is one effective and interesting way that can be applied in any classrooms. The results of this research suggest that adventure games  are used not only for mere fun, but more importantly, for the useful practice and review of language lessons, thus leading toward the goal of improving learners' communicative competence.'