EL120 AOU

Question1=400 words

Introduction

Human being race is mainly has a very important distinguishing characteristic that makes him prior to all creatures which is language communication. In the current assignment, there will be discussions of linguistics and language study in addition to presenting definitions for branches included in linguistics science for the purposes of understanding languages, linguistics and language learn.

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A language is a word that could have the definition of : the way of communication among human being that is practiced by a system of mind that uses units, symbols and signals which could differ from a language to another. To define linguistics we can say that it is the study of language using scientific methods and strategies that use analytical techniques that detect evidence based theories of studying language and this language can be studied generally or to study a language on its own such as English, Italian or any other language spoken in a specific area. Each language bears its own elements and components but there are main components shared in most languages such as phonology system, lexicon and others. Studying the components of a language makes it easy to master this language quickly and perfectly. (Taylor et al, 2001) Any language consists of main components and these components include phonology which represents phonemes functions, morphology which represents words formed by morpheme units, lexicon that represents the words, syntax which concerns with rules and grammar points, semantics that cares for meanings and how sentences are meaningful and discourse which cares for sentences relations. (gamu, 2014) There are many different branches of linguistics which are all set for the best study of language components as the general linguistics, comparative linguistics descriptive linguistics,  anthropological linguistics, , applied linguistics, historical linguistics, psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics and each branch has its main functions of language study as for example: the general linguistics is based on using theories for studying language, the comparative linguistics makes compared studies on different languages, anthropological linguistics studies the relation of language and culture of human beings and the descriptive linguistics is based on different descriptions of the methods of language speaking.  

Conclusion

Human beings is blessed by the language communicative way which helped in mankind progress on Earth. Languages are based on systems and has main components which form these systems and linguistics is a science that consists of branches set for studying languages to understand everything about them and to make people master them.

Question2=400words

 Introduction

adults and children are both able to learn and acquire foreign languages and their abilities to learn fast and master the languages may differ. This assignment is discussing how age could play a role in learning foreign languages and it tries to find out if children can learn foreign languages faster and better than adults or not according to previous researches and experiences.  

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There are linguistics researches that say that it is better to learn a foreign language in childhood as the chances of fast learning is bigger and that the adults are not as good as children in acquiring a new language because some researchers found out that there are parts in child's mind that automatically respond to learning a foreign language. (Tippin, 2011)There is an opinion says that children do not take the matter seriously that's why they learn easier as they think it is a game and specially when the language is presented in a funny way.(International Linguists Community Online, 2014). Yet many opinions and studies say that the adults are better and faster in learning new foreign languages than children due to their awareness and determination to learn if put in a good learning environment and as they are having the advantage of abstract thinking that enables them to master a foreign language easily and quickly. The cognitive abilities of a child are not as ripen as those of an adult according to researches of Pringannti in addition to the fact that training adults is much more important than thinking of their age when teaching them a foreign language as Kara Morgan-Short and Michael Ullmann  suggested in their researches. (Lebowitz, 2012) The methods used by teachers in presenting a foreign language decides how much success can learners gain whatever age they are as for example the listening matter should come first before reading and writing in order to enable aged learners to acquire good pronunciation. Methods of testing and measuring language learning also make great differences when adult are learning a foreign language. Another factor that makes adults' learning harder is that teacher do not accept their mistakes easily as with children. (Ausubel, 2014)

Conclusion

Training and good learning environment are main important factors needed for teaching both children and adults a foreign language in addition to find out problems that learners face and age is not a deciding factor in learning foreign languages.

Sickle cell disease

Sickle cell disease is a serious blood disease which can be found in very early ages and it leaves great effects on patients' quality of life. Nursing care provided to patients with sickle cell disease must be very caring and nurses must provide their best work to patients. Sickle cell is a disease that affects cells of blood and it is a chronic illness. Millions of people around the world have sickle cell disease, the people whose ancestors are from Africa, Central America, South America, Mediterranean countries; India and Saudi Arabia are more liable to have the disease. About 90,000 to 100,000 persons from America have the disease. (CDC, 2014) In KSA, the disease is prevailing in the Eastern and Southern regions more than other regions. (AlQurashi et al, 2008) Sickle cell was chosen because it endangers lives of new born children and adolescents and affects patients' quality of life. The female patient is a 13 years old Saudi was suffering from pain in the abdomen when being admitted at hospital in 22-11-2014, at the pain numeric scale, the number was 7. Her history shows that she was diagnosed to be affected with Sickle Cell Disease as a child. A holistic perspective is used to provide the patient with care as all her needs are clear. This assignment is a case study and a reflection about nursing care provided to a patient with sickle cell disease suffering severe abdominal pain. It will provide a presentation for female patient profile and her family's profile.

The female patient is at Grade seven at school. She is a sister for three other sisters and a brother. She likes watching T.V, playing computer games and singing. She dislikes hospital, medicines and she seems to be afraid from treatment. Her family seems to be caring and loving as they are the source of information. Her height is 147 cm and weight is 50 kg. The patient suffers sickle cell disease since childhood and she was admitted to the hospital due to having severe pain in her abdomen. It was a sickle cell crisis. Her past history of the illness included sickle cell strokes, fever and acute chest syndrome. Her family health history includes her father having strokes and diabetes and her mother suffers high blood pressure and she has an aunt who suffers sickle cell anemia. She was received in ER, her pain was measured by numeric Scale and she received morphine and hydromorphone by IV, daily folic acid and she got Tradol orally. I began a discussion with the patient who seemed to be afraid but sooner she liked me and talked about her feelings of shyness as she can't swim in the club with her friends and she said she doesn't like hospital stays she has to do from time to time and that this makes her sad for long times, she was thinking that she is deprived of playing and having a good life as her mates but I told her that she is fine and that she can enjoy many things in life as music, reading and surfing the net so she smiled and liked my words. Her food was small meals including vegetables and fruits, enough fluids and 8 glasses of water daily. I focused mainly on her breathing behavior as she had severe cough and I was very keen on preventing any possible complications related to respiratory problems. I discussed her about the possible reasons that caused her the pain, she answered that the weather was very cold and her clothes were not heavy. She has enough sleeping periods as she slept for eight hours at night and three hours in the afternoon without sleeping medications. Her family supports her in moving a little and took her to walk for 20 minutes in the hospital yard every day. Hemoglobin rates were monitored and I compared them with baseline levels. A patient with sickle cell disease has some specific signs and symptoms such as having abnormal genes.  Patients with sickle cell disease may also suffer symptoms associated with anemia such as fatigue, pallor and weakness, their Hgb and Het are usually reduced in addition to having reticulocyte count. They usually suffer severe unbearable pain. Patients of sickle cell disease may suffer acute chest syndrome, cerebrovascular accident which is stroke, priapism and or splenic sequestration crisis. Their sickle cells of the blood usually form microvascular occlusions that could cause infarct or ischemia in patient's tissues or organs.  (Hazinski, 2012)  Pain crisis are also signs of sickle cell disease as pain is characterized with being very severe coming in episode attacks that could affect many places such as the legs, arms, back or abdomen. Fever, high temperature and stress are also possible signs of the disease. (Tamparo and Lewis, 2011)

Sickle cell disease can be defined as a disease which is mostly inherited and it causes problems in hemoglobin globin genes as the disease's transmitting occurs as an autosomal recessive trait. (Nagelhout and Plaus, 2013) It can also be referred to as a blood disease which is very serious and has a few types as sickle cell anemia. The oxygen flow in the patient's body is not normal as the sickle cells do not last as normal red cells of the blood.( Bjorklund, 2010) Diagnosing sickle cell disease presenting in a person can be suggested when there is normocytic, macrocytic hemolytic anemia, high lactate dehydrogenase levels and a clinical history which is compatible.(Goldman and Schafer, 2011)  Sickle cell disease diagnosing requires many tests such as the standard CBC, hemoglobin electrophoresis (used to measure blood hemoglobin types and the sickle cell test which can identify the blood's abnormal hemoglobin which could be found. Sickle cell disease can be treated by using blood transfusions which could help stop its symptoms and prevent the disease's complications. Prenatal tests are useful for prevention procedures as they can identify fetus HbB genes. Treatment can also be done by using painkillers and fluid intake. Painful crises associated with SCD can also be well managed by hydroxyurea which is an antitumor drug which showed its effectiveness in treating SCD pain crises. (Wailoo and   Pemberton, 2008) Medications for patients with sickle cell disease can be used according to the symptom the patient suffers as pain can be treated with painkillers as aspirin, ibuprofen, morphin, perfalgan, Tradol and or opioid and they are taken daily with doses not more than 100ml three or four times daily.(University of Maryland Medical Centre, 2014) Anemia can be treated by blood transfusions with caution so as to avoid having diabetes or other diseases, they could be made for the patient every three or four weeks. Vaccinations should be presented for patients with SCD especially children to keep them away from infections. (CDC, 2014)

 Goals of care were set according to the patient's case. There were two actual goals which are: reducing the patient's pain to a level that she accepts and helping the patient to breath easily by preserving her ventilation to be adequate and not causing complications. There were two potential goals which are: keeping the patient protected from infections and keeping the patient protected from falls due to the painkillers she took.  According to  (Boyle and  Andrews, 2008) a nurse should have strategies for pain management such as pain assessment, identifying reasons for pain by building a good nurse patient relationship and confirming the transcultural concepts when applying such strategies and this what I really tried to do with the female patient as everything about her was recorded in notes but I think I would have done better job by filing everything about her on my computer. The pain scale was used to measure pain level, the right medications were used with her and her vital signs were monitored as I checked her temperature from time to time as I learnt to do this which is clear according to (Nettina et al,2013) that reported the importance of nursing interventions to check temperature of the patient which prevents fever. I was very keen on keeping the patient's breathing as adequate as possible as she suffered difficulties with cough and shortness of breath and the pain caused her to have breathing difficulties. (Nettina et al,2013)

According to  (Hughson et al, 2012), the patient position is very important to prevent breathing difficulties as the upright position or the semi upright can help the patient breath easily and I did this as I raised the bed to higher position with regard to the patient's rest and comfort, this was useful for her but I think I should have used pillows to add more comfort for the patient.  (Hughson et al, 2012) suggested that oxygen therapy is also useful to prevent breathing difficulties. I tried to keep watching the patient to administer oxygen for her when it is needed. This was very helpful for her and she appreciated this, I tried to educate the patient and her family regarding methods for breathing management at home such as relaxing techniques and be away from stress and exhaustion. (Moyeet, 2009) The patient was in risk of infection due to her being hospitalized so many precautions were taken to help her. Hands hygiene was a first care point that I used to make sure that my hands are very clean before and after dealing with X as according to (Elsevier Health Sciences, 2008), hygiene is the nurse's responsibility and glove and masks use are very essential to prevent the patients from infections. I did not use the mask too much but in future I will do, I suggest that all nurses should not work without masks at all and I think everyone in the care unit or in the hospital should be keen on wearing masks and gloves to prevent infections.

 The patient was at risk of falling as she was a teenager and the medications she used to take as painkillers made her liable to fall so I ensured her safety through many procedures to prevent falls. According to (Iyer, 2006) mobility and fall preventing are the nurse's responsibility as nurses should make sure that beds do not make the patient liable to falls, family members should be educated regarding watching the patient and bell ringing when falls occur and the nurse could help the patient wear good type foot wear that prevent falls. I was doing my best to ensure the bed's safety by providing the patient with a bed with surrounding rails to prevent her from falling, provide the family with a bell and a stick to help the patient walk. I also tried to put the patient in a room near the nursing room but this was not possible so I suggest that hospitals and all healthcare organizations should take this into consideration as patients who are in risk of falls should be put as near as possible to the nurse's room. Pain was well managed and reached zero in the female patient discharge day, breathing was good, the patient did not get any infections and she did not fall. I learned too much experience in nursing care and practice which will help me in the future as a registered nurse. As an educator, I can provide families of patients with sickle cell disease with information about home management for pain crises and other symptoms of SCD. (Iyer, 2006)

   Conclusion

Sickle cell disease is a case that affects the blood and it has great impact on patients as it affects quality of life greatly. People with African origin are the most to be carrying the disease. Testing is very important in diagnosing SCD as there are a number of tests to diagnose it. There are many signs that tell a person has sickle cell disease such as having abnormality in the genes. Symptoms related to sickle cell disease can include pain, fever, fatigue and weakness. Nursing care for a patient with sickle cell disease must be well planned so as to help achieving goals of care and help protect the patient from complications and injuries that may happen due to lack of care during time of hospitalization. The information got from literature added to real life situation experience will be very useful for future work, more researches should be done regarding treatment and management of sickle cell disease and its symptoms. The current assignment is a case study and a reflection about nursing care provided to a patient with sickle cell disease suffering severe abdominal pain. Skills got and learnt through this experience were too many and useful for nurses' practice in pain management and patients' assessment to set the right goal of care and apply them to reach the best quality of care level provided to hospitalized patients of sickle cell disease.

  

E301B

Introduction

Literary texts have been improving throughout times and gave rise to complex and Implicatures widely. Meanings within texts are various and different in functions as well as the different levels of literariness. The linguistic levels can show how good a literary text is and gives a good chance for assessing and evaluating literary texts according to many measurements. The current assignment is discussing literary texts rise up throughout history and the various levels that signifies the texts quality according to the violation of maxims as Grice and others suggested in addition to discussing the semantics and meanings of texts and how to judge the quality of literary texts through assessing and evaluating literary texts.

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Violating Grice's maxims

Quantity, quality, relation and manners are all among the maxims that when are violated by authors in writing literary texts, creativity abilities appear to strengthen the nature of such texts and improve their complex. Grice suggested that words have functions that differ according to the meanings speakers mean by saying the words in different situations which provides a wide range of meaning usage by words. Implicature was late presented by Grice to improve the theory of meanings he suggested then he suggested his cooperative principle of conversations so it was his maxims that are to be violated by as many people as possible so as to produce new understandings of the words and different meanings for one word or one phrase so as not to measure a word or a phrase from one only perspective but to find out new meanings that makes literary texts more distinguished and expressive. The interpretation process depends on relating different maxims to each other whether by violating maxims or by not violating them at all and just take the simple meanings and direct meanings of words. Speakers can suggest the different implicatures of words by their intentions while speaking but this also refers to how the listeners can get the meanings or being unable to get them as they are meant by the speakers. Implicatures as suggested by Grice can be made by many elements such as metaphors, parallelism, deviation and foregrounding. In literature, violating those maxims results in different creative figures of speech which raises the texts quality and provides unique texts that differ from a writer to another and that distinguish a literary age from another and this violation is the tool that produces poetry, verse and all images that can be recreated throughout times to enrich the literature and give authors chances to be creative.  (Grice, 1975)

Literature in readers' minds

Thinking has many ways by which people can learn and know what literature is such as defining it according to the text inherent features as the language functions can vary to provide deviation or parallelism. Functions also can signify the texts' nature such as the poetic features that reform and re-evaluate the text to produce it with new and more creative roles. There is also the cognitive approach which provides a broad space for studying the psychological sides and the processes that minds of readers have when a reader reads or listens to a literary text as this approach depends on how readers receive texts, understand them and evaluate them by their minds to judge their levels of literary quality. Readers minds can be good tools of evaluation as readers who read literary texts whether they are poems, novels or whatever literary works they belong to can have each reader's own imaginary contexts which can be given to readers through the hidden meanings that lie behind the concrete meanings of words but being within a literary work is what attracts readers to look for more deep or hidden meanings behind a word. Readers receive the non-literary texts and understand them directly which cannot happen with the complex literary works carrying lots of meanings. Reading any text which is not supposed to be a piece of literature is a process that use directions of language that describe reality and not imagination as meanings in such texts do not change even if the texts themselves were reordered which is a matter that do not happen in literary texts as reality is not a reference sought in literary texts. Literary texts attract the attention of readers by the images and the word plays that interest and attract special readers' minds.

(Arab Open University, The Art of English: literary creativity and its readings. Units1 and 2)

Literariness in literary and non-literary texts

Literariness is not only poetry but all fiction works that are based on a poetic language of images, imagination, figures and deep meanings are literariness elements yet non- literary texts can also be included among elements of literariness. According to many researchers as Carter, there are features found in literary and non-literary texts such as medium independence, text patterning, semantic density and others and the literary texts include more features than the non-literary ones. To detect the literariness levels in a text, this can be happen by focusing on text patterning or the semantic patterning. An author who is good can employ literariness in his works properly so as to add great literary value to the text by using literariness levels and poetic elements to enhance meanings. Literary value can be assessed and evaluated by finding the text literary form and its non-literary form and how they are related to each other, as there should be a balance between these two elements. According to Bradford, closure resistance is a tool for evaluating literary texts according to each text value which could be measured by studying the text poetic elements and how they are related to the concrete text. Texts production is a process that requires high quality stylistic tools so as to choose a suitable stylistic form for a literary text by selecting the main linguistic elements which raise the text literariness and literary value as words, semantics and syntax, then meanings can differ according to the codes produced by such elements and this what makes a literary text more valuable than another one. Having special effects on a text can be caused by styling and this effect can be easily then conveyed to the readers as styling can lead to having meanings in the texts which cannot be made by other technique of adding effects. (Widdowson, 1975)

The poetic function

Improving the value of a literary text includes adding poetic function to it so as to enrich the language and add the required effects on readers so as to look for what is hidden behind words' meanings. The poetic function also can add effects to non-literary texts in order to attract the listeners with expressions that leave effects on their minds directly and indirectly. Repeating elements is a basic feature of poetic functions and this could occur to rhyme, words or any other text elements in order to produce extra meanings. The existence of the poetic function should not be more than other functions existence such as the referential function for example so that texts cannot be very hard to reach the readers. Language and context should be related to each other in a text with the balance that readers need. The poetic language uses metaphors and images to arouse readers' eagerness to think of more meanings of a word. Yet metaphors should not be presented solely within a literary text, conceptual representation must be taken into consideration of authors when it comes to add metaphors ad images. Judging a text according to what it carries of poetic elements and how the poetic function plays a role in raising the value of the text requires skills of analyzing the text and learning how it is written and formed into linguistic patterns, how it is balanced between literary and non literary elements and how it is valued by readers themselves.    

Conclusion

The current assignment dealt with literary texts that give rise to implicatures and how violating the maxims can help adding more value to the literary texts. The literariness is a very important concept in literary as it can tell how good a text is and it can provide the authors with the chance to produce more valuable texts with the required effects on readers by changing meanings and add deeper effects on words and semantics. Syntax and phonology use is also a helping factor in producing better texts as well as using the metaphors and the poetic language which should be carefully used by authors so as not to devalue their texts when the metaphors are not properly used.

chronically ill children

Chronically ill children are those children who have any one of the known chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer or others and it is known that a chronic illness is that kind of disease that lasts for a long time that is recorded by researchers and medical studies by staying for more than three months in long and it can't be totally cured so it has many complications and effects that harm the child with a chronic illness and this affects the family who owns a child suffering a chronic illness. 

There are many trends in dealing with a chronically ill child such as the following ones: 
1.School care
This should be done by teachers, nurses at school, parents and other workers in the school who should be aware of how to deal with the chronically ill child physically and psychologically as there should be monitoring for the child in order to avoid injuries and harms in addition to helping the child cope with his condition and receive his education easily. The school administration should also be careful that the child may be absent for long times as a result of long periods of hospitalization. The school nurse has an important role in providing care for the chronically ill child and explaining the case to teachers and managers at school. 
2. Nursing care 
nursing care should depend on the type of illness the child suffers, the type of treatment he receives and the individual needs of each child. Nurses should be careful of the medicament the child takes and there should be daily or weekly home visitations for the child in order to keep following his treatment. 

Yankee Fork and Hoe Company Case Study

 Questions for analysis

Question 1:

Comment on the forecasting system being used by Yankee. Suggest changes or improvements that you believe are justified.

Answer:

There are several weaknesses of current forecasting system: Using only Qualitative analysis., forecasting figures are based on the meetings with managers, no mathematical technique is involved, benefits: quick forecast & advantage of experience of each manager. Demerits are : forecast tend to be over inflated .

Suggestion:

Implementation of quantitative method like seasonality technique with linear trend equation2.

Using actual shipment figure, instead of actual demand figures.

Marketing forecast is based on actual shipment data.

Trying to adjust for shortages in actual shipment data by anticipated promotions and environmental and economical changes.

Suggestion:

Focus on past demand to project future demand.

Forecasting based on actual demand will help production department to schedule the production line more effectively.

Provide a clearer picture to project realistic volume.

Create more sales and revenue for the company when anticipating the upward trend of demand.

Prevent losses when anticipated downward trend in the market.3.

Lack of communication between Production and Marketing department

Both do not have accurate forecasting system and have different perception for the same.

Production department think that marketing department over inflates forecast.

Marketing generate unfaithful forecasts by adjusting past shipment and not predicting future demands.

To maintain low-cost production, the long-term purchasing agreement is needed in order to keep the price low for the raw material from suppliers but having it just there is the price to pay for the company.

Suggestions

Marketing should develop a forecasting system that reflects both past shortages and future expected demands.

Meeting between the two should conduct at the end of each month.

Both departments should adjust the anticipated demand monthly to avoid unexpected changes in the economy and shortage of the raw material.4.

Marketing division may not be optimistic.

Delay delivery problem was caused due to low productivity of production department.

Current production is not sufficient to serve customer needs as it is based

on “adjusted forecast”.

Production capacity seemed not to be a problem as rake head & bow could be produced 7,000 & 5,000 units per day respectively, compared to the highest sales record in the last 4 years (month 11 year 1) at 83,269 units.

Inappropriate inventory management was the major cause of unproductive production.

Question 2:

Develop your own forecast for bow rakes for each month of the next year (year 5). Justify your forecast and the method you used.1.

Answer:

Naïve method

Naïve forecasts are the most cost-effective and efficient objective forecasting model, and provide a benchmark against which more sophisticated models can be compared. For stable time series data, this approach says that the forecast for any period equals the previous period's actual value.2.

Moving average method

Moving average techniques forecast demand by calculating an average of actual demands from a specified number of prior periods. Each new forecast drops the demand in the oldest period and replaces it with the demand in the most recent period; thus, the data in the calculation "moves" over time

Weighted moving average method

When using a moving average method described before, each of the observations used to compute the forecasted value is weighted equally. In certain cases, it might be beneficial to put more weight on the observations that are closer to the

time period being forecast. When this is done, this is known as a weighted moving average technique. The weights in a weighted MA must sum to 1.4.

Conclusion

The table gives us the Four-Year Demand History for the Bow Rake and the demand figures are the number of units promised for delivery each month. Hence we could not forecast using the exponential smoothing and the trend adjusted exponential smoothing.  There was no linear increasing or decreasing trend that was evident hence trend analysis for linear trends had to be avoided. By analyzing the data provided we could observe a parabolic trend and season variations with demand increasing during the first 4 months and last 4 months. Using all the different techniques for forecasting and taking into considerations the error associated with each we could conclude that the multiplicative model was the best forecasting technique.

            

Change resistance

Change resistance is a big problem that may face any business organization that is applying a specific type of change as change implementation requires high efficiency from the side of the organization as before applying any change there are many questions that need to be asked such as: how far the change can be successive? Why the organization is applying this change and what reasons lie behind this? Will employees accept and engage with this change? To what extent will this occur? Will there be any resistance? Who will resist such change and why? What can the organization do for facing the resistance to change?

These questions are helpful for the business organization because they can reveal many things and solve many problems that may occur if change was applied without preparation so the first step that should be applied before implementing change is preparing for the change and checking that all parts of the organization are ready for applying such a change in addition to making sure that change can be applied by a systematic way.

This can be made by choosing a special change model and follow it and there are many models such as for example, ADKAR model that depends on five main steps for applying change which are awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement and each of them refers to the way the organization prepares for change, there are other models such as Lewin's model which involves three main stages which are unfreezing that reflects preparing for change, change that means to apply change and refreezing which means to stress the success of change application. By following a change management model, the organization can succeed in the type of change it is intending to apply as this will force managers to make analysis and studies about employees' reactions for the change and at the same time, they will be prepared for applying the change properly in order to raise the organizational efficiency.    

Importance of Games in Learning English as a Foreign Language

Games are usually defined as a fun tool which is used for encouraging both teachers and students to break the ice at a time of getting bored or at the beginning of a lesson. According to Byrne (1995), games are some kind of playing which have rules to control them, they are not just a method for making a nice atmosphere in the classroom yet they are a fun that everyone enjoys and at the same time they could be a strategy that involves students in the learning process and into language using through the game. As to Jill Hadfield (1990), he gave a definition for games to be a ruled activity which has goals and fun elements. Gibbs(1974) defined games as an activity that involves co-operation and competition among decision makers who desire reaching some goals through following some rules. There are many factors within games as goals, rules, relaxing competition and learning as a specific point and getting into educational issues. They could be tools for helping students to learn and teachers to make the educational process much more enjoyable and easier. Any classroom game has rules which needs to be explained before beginning the game. Using games in EFL classes needs to be well explained so as to be understood by students and not being puzzling for them. Rules should be simply explained and they shouldn't be too many. When presenting games in EFL classes, it is good to use demonstrations so as to allow students to follow the games rules accurately and not to find it hard or puzzling. If they do not understand the game and its rules, they may feel bored with it and have no benefits at last. The best game to be presented for students must be a competitive one and has encouraging elements so competition is highly needed so that students can share in the game eagerly and with success motivations so as to solve problems or beat teams and get higher scores. Fun is a good factor for pleasing the students involved in the game or even watching it but learning is the main focus in fact as learning through games allows students to learn new vocabulary, pronunciation, letters and grammatical points that they do not easily forget. So we can at last define games as a group of elements of learning provided to students in a relaxing form of a game which is enjoying and beneficial at the same time. 

Teachers are lucky with this matter as there are a good number of language games with a variety of types to choose from. EFL classes has special nature as most teachers and students of EFL classes see games as a tool for warming up, a reward , a wrap up at the end of the lesson or a filling items in extra time periods. The teachers of EFL classes employ them as a fun aid but not for real work. Schools in which English is presented as a foreign language do not believe in including games as a teaching method. This perspective reduces the effectiveness of game using in EFL classes which makes deciding the proper type of game a dilemma that teachers find challenges when they do it (Rodilla 2012) Each class has its nature and characteristics as well as each lesson or grammatical point so teachers should concentrate when choosing the proper game for a specific class or a specific language point as there are factors they have to consider while choosing the game. The first factor is the level of the game and the language level of students, games should be selected carefully according to the class level, its purposes and the curriculum contents. Student characters also must be taken into consideration as they may be very serious students, old, young, open- minded or not, funny and mastering the language according to their level or not. Choosing the time is another factor as it is important to know when to use and what game to choose at this specific time. Another important factor is the motivation of teachers themselves to play and get into the game and having the ability of leadership in a game or to assign a student to master the game instead. In EFL classes, games sometimes may be difficult for students so teachers have to modify them to be suitable for the students' level. In EFL classes games must be well used so as not to be a waste of time and students think it is time for making troubles in class or for joking.   

To conclude, it is important to mention that games are very important as they could be defined as tools for engaging student in the learning process and letting them acquire language experiences easily and in a funny way. Deciding the proper game is a process which requires effort from teachers as there are factors for this process. The next chapter will discuss the advantages of using games in EFL classes and reasons for using them.