Author(s): Tengku Farah Petri Tengku Mahmood, Afni Anida Adnan, Sharina Salmi Azmi, Ruhil Nadiah Abu Bakar

Abstract: Vocabulary acquisition is vital in learning a language. To express ideas and communicate clearly, sufficient amount of vocabulary is required for language learners. Learning vocabulary maybe challenging to second language learners, so language instructors come up with many mays to make language learning interesting. One of the ways to learn English vocabulary is through games. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether second language learners could acquire new vocabulary through “You’ve Been Framed” game. This study designs a vocabulary based game for language learners. Then it uses a set of questionnaires to evaluate the effectives of the game. The results of the study would include whether players can understand the rules of playing the game and enjoy playing it. Besides that, the effectiveness of the game in learning new vocabularies through implicit learning was also investigated. This study contributes to the language learning literature particularly in implicit language learning through games.

Keywords: board game, implicit learning, language games, vocabulary, games, word play

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.55.47