INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL GAMES INTO THE EYL CLASSROOM
Language teachers for young learner need cultural sensitivity as well as the ability to design lesson plan that motivate students to pursue cultural learning and help them communicate with people from different cultures. Yet, it seems to be common practice that foreign language teaching frequently neglects the local cultural awareness, the teacher focuses in enriching vocabularies by using textbook rather than combining it with the traditional games in the classroom. Therefore, this paper presentation will explore the benefit of traditional games and how to integrate it to the classroom. It focuses on the implementation of Indonesia traditional games in English teaching to young learner. The design is created by integrating the materials in the conventional English games into traditional games as a base. This paper will present the importance of traditional games integration into the course, their implementation into the classroom and the impact of traditional games into developing knowledge among students. Keywords: language teaching, traditional games, EYL (English for young learner)