Language Games as a Technique for Increasing Motivation and Overcoming Fossilization and Recommendations for Integrating Educational Language Games in the Second Language Lesson

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Demotivation and fossilization of learners are major hindering factors in the process of learning a second language; interestingly, these two factors, are in a certain sense interconnected. The term fossilization refers to a stage in language learning when learners' language progress slows down; they consistently make the same mistakes and lose the desire and motivation to overcome these obstacles. This is one of the main reasons why learners find it difficult to achieve high linguistic competence in a second language. The lack of motivation, along with the difficulties of learning a second language, is caused by a learning environment that is monotonous and based on rote memorization. The paper offers one way to overcome fossilization - recommendations for organizing and conducting educational language games, which are based on the personal experience of the authors and will help teachers in the process of planning and conducting language games.