Investigating teaching vocabulary through playing games.

الملخص EN

His study aimed at exploring the beliefs of both teachers and students towards the use of games in learning vocabulary in Arabic as a foreign language classroom.

The researcher used the descriptive and analytical approach as study method and the questionnaire as data collection tool.

The study showed that both teachers and students held the same beliefs except for some few items had some interesting answers that showed a mismatch between students’ beliefs and teachers’’ beliefs.

And also showed a mismatch between what teachers do and they believe in.

This mismatching in beliefs the study recommended that it is still useful for the teacher to be aware of those beliefs and recognize the differences among his/her students propose that a compromise between teachers and students may be the best solution in dealing with difference or gap in teacher and student beliefs in order to create harmony