After implementing the games and activities to practice vocabulary, and after recycling
words through the games every two weeks, it seems that students’ ability to memorize
the words has become more efficient. Through my observations of students, and
especially when they had their regular revision of the previous lessons, I noticed their
increased ability to recall the words. As I noted in my research journal, “Am glad to hear
some students say ‘We had this word in that game’; it shows me how well they
remember the word.” This might be because students were given cognitively
demanding tasks, where they needed to do some thinking to complete them. My mentor
teacher commented about students’ general performance by saying: