Digital games by english teacher of junior high school 1 Gedangan Sidoarjo

English Language Teaching (ELT) in Indonesia since it was introduced has not run pretty well. Several methods have been tried to boost the English language teaching development in Indonesia. Then, the ELT grows faster during the growth of the technology. Technology is deemed capable of being used to develop the ELT, digital Games as the one of the technology looked as the new hope for the English teacher to engage the students to learn English by the easier way. The objectives of this study are to investigate kinds of digital games used by junior high school teachers in 1 Gedangan for teaching English and to describe the teacher’s challenges in using digital games English language teaching process. This study takes place in Junior High School 1 Gedangan as it is known that this school used digital games for ELT. This research uses Qualitative as design, to get the data the researcher uses a quantitative instrument that is questionnaire and interview. The result of the study showed that there are 9 digital games used by the teacher which are divided into two categorized educational games and entertaining games. The games are kahoot, duolingo, diner dash, etc. During the use of the digital games the teacher found some challenges that are internet connections, students’ learning motivation, students’ English competence, the less facility, limited time, and the lesson material