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form, meaning, and use. Students should be able to understand not only the
fundamental mechanics of the language, but they also have to comprehend the
techniques and the usage of particular structure, word, or phrase. In other words, the
teacher must teach the students to be able to apply the context of the grammar in their
daily speech or conversation instead of doing ritual writing and grammar exercises.
In other words they learnt most of the grammar component in isolation. Meaning
that the learning takes place as a set of rules to be memorized, or followed. Therefore,
these students even teachers somehow were frustrated and puzzled with the lack of
interesting grammar instruction in the classroom. In order to make the grammar lesson
to be more interesting for the students, there is a new idea among the teacher which
promotes the idea of dealing with grammar descriptively or known as transformational
grammar. This kind of idea is where the instruction should be related to the purpose of
the learner. Thus, this idea would be more open to the students to learn besides they
also can do their own self expression over the fixed grammar rules.
Setyowati (n.d) stated that teaching grammar is one of the important components
in learning English for pupils at school. The knowledge of grammar is a foundation for a
person to master language. In order to make a grammar lesson effective, beneficial,
and interesting a teacher should use some well-developed and fascinating techniques in
the classroom (Saricoband & Metin, 2000). The games technique is one of the ways
that help teacher to have an effective lesson to teach grammar.