An Exploration on the Effectiveness of Using Game in Teaching Tenses

English language is one of the subjects that must be mastered by English foreign language students especially for students in junior high schools. The students need to consider toward the rule in the items of English such as the rule of grammar in creating sentences. Most of junior high school students encounter the difficulties in using the appropriate sentences based on the rule or principle of grammar. Sometimes the students also get bored in learning English in the aspects of grammar. This research is to investigate the teachers’ perception on the use of game in teaching tenses. Thus, this research is entitled “An exploration on the Effectiveness of Using Game in Teaching Tenses”. The aim of this study is to find out how the teachers’ perception toward the use of game in teaching English or Tenses whether it is effective or not and to know how the teachers’ strategy of applying game in teaching tenses or grammar. In order to obtain the data, I interviewed nine English teachers from four different junior high schools. Semi structure interview was applied to gain the deep information from the participants. After completing the data, the teachers’ perception to use game in teaching tenses was positive and it is effective to use game in teaching tenses in the classroom.