English Elementary School Teacher’s Perceptions Toward Teaching Vocabulary Using Game

The research is about analysis of the teacher’s perception toward the use of games in teaching English vocabulary for student’s elementary school. This study was conducted in the Elementary School, with five participants of English teachers. The research design used in this study was thematic qualitative to describe the information from the teachers about their perceptions toward the use of the game in the classroom. The purposive sampling technique was used to collect the data through a semi-structured interview with five teachers of English as their teaching subject in the school. The result of the data was analyzed based on what the participants said about their perception of teaching vocabulary by using the games. Research findings showed that there were several perceptions that were explained by teachers in using the game as learning vocabulary. There were five advantages of using games for students: The first one is the students were happy and enjoying the class more than in the formal one. The second one is students become more enthusiastic than usual. Then students can learn the vocabulary from the games easier than without. The fourth one is the atmosphere of the class becomes less bored and more effective, And the last advantages are that the students are easy in remembering vocabulary and enhance students’ motivation. While the challenges of it were: limited of time, students’ lack of confidence, difficulty to control classroom management and the class becomes boring. Therefore, the teachers also gave some suggestions to minimize the problems