Students today have a great desire to sound like a native speaker for a better and clear communication. According to a survey carried out by Villalobos Ulate '' Learners consider pronunciation to be the second most important language area'' (Villalobos Ulate, 2008, P.9) however pronunciation is given less attention and has less importance than other skills. Susan Miyake (2009) calls pronunciation Cinderella of ELT (being locked away and out of sight) probably because it is known to be boring. Songs are original and easily accessible examples of spoken English. (Stanculea and Bran, 2015) Songs can have two important advantages. First they will easily convey different types of phonological rules like liaison, elision, assimilation, reduction, …show more content…
In Grammar Teaching grammar can be easily done through songs, which sounds more interesting than by teaching through textbooks and by cramming grammar structures into learners mind. Songs can be incorporated in EFL classes to reinforce the grammar taught in the classroom. (Millington, 2011) After listening to songs, students tend to use them in their own conversation and even correctly produce their own sentences using the grammar practiced in the song. (Shen, 2009) Teaches can search for the appropriate song related to the structure they have in mind. Some examples of song are provided from Sigurdardóttir (2012) in different grammatical cases like ''she loves you'' by Beatles teaching present tense, ''Yellow'' by Coldplay teaching irregular past tense verbs, ''Lately'' by Stevie Wonder teaching present simple and continuous, ''Every breath you take'' by The Police teaching future continuous. In the grammar part teachers can also provide students with lyric of the song and highlighters an ask students to highlight special parts of the lyric containing the grammar or they can ask students to highlight some parts of the grammatical structure in one color and other parts in another color or in every creative way that they recognize themselves. (Sigurdardóttir,
The children been working on beginning letter sounds and this lesson is a new learning strategy to reinforce the concept in a fun and appealing song that help reproduce the sound patterns. Have been working with ELL students on letter sounds at beginning of words. Been going over the farmer in the del song and naming the animals on the farm as background knowledge and something to relate to the children to see the sound at the beginning match the animals. Students will be observed by the teacher as they are singing the song and making the beginning letter sounds. The teacher will be looking for the correct pronunciation of each word and sound isolations.
In her essays, Elena Passarello explores how the voice can be able to define human beings, refine them, as well as its ability to connect people to each other. Also, it is a masterpiece that easily explains and breaks down the relationship between a song and a birdsong. Elena is inspired by her acting background to writing the book and collection of essays which result in a nice blend of personal narration and reportage. Elena carefully sets to find out what is the true feeling of making an utterance and what it really means to study the concept of human vocalization.
This fact was on students ability to understand things while listening to music. Perhams states, “Reading while listening to music, especially with lyrics, weakens understanding.”. This fact is one that many high school students can relate to and understand. Throughout the article, the author builds his strongest argument using
I choose the psychological lens. I chose this lens because it focus on what the character think .It also focus on what motivates them. In my song the author writes about what she thinks about women 's confidence or way of thinking about thir bodies. She also wrote about how her mother motivated her. In the song she wrote that in popular magazines they use alot of photoshop .Trainor
This is very well visible through the lyrics of songs such as you bang, we bang. The lyrics are, “You bang, we bang, why they had to kill Lil’ Joe? They gone and killed Joe. ”(158) However it also expresses emotions.
In the song, language is used as it would be in an ordinary conversation (colloquial) which is not formally. This is crucial to the song because if it was sung to formally or with much too much slang then there would be less interest by the audience which wouldn’t help them with getting their message across nor with how much money is coming in. An example of this colloquial language usage is when the song says,”Don 't steal don 't cheat don 't lie,” so that shows how language we use in normal convertains is used throughout the song. Another reason why the colloquial english is the so important is how if the song was formal or was all slang, how the song would then make no sense. An example is how, don 't stain don 't punk don 't front, would not be a good/ as appealing to most of his audience as ,”don 't steal don 't cheat don 't lie,” as said in the song.
Final Draft We all have stories and memories tied to songs that have become a part of who are. Remember the violins playing in the background while watching a sad movie or the song that helped you through difficult times or the song you and your friends sang while attending a concert? Whether it’s on the television, the radio, in a movie, in the car, or at a sporting event, music is everywhere. Feeling the rhythm of music brings us so much joy and excitement but playing musical instrument is even more fulfilling because it has many benefits.
Do you believe rap music is the cause of violence and hostile behavior in teens? Yes, because it persuades them toward a real negative mindset and lifestyle. The influence it posses on teens is extremely huge plus very misleading. Its lyrics paint images of a life filled with drugs along with guns that teens believe in. As a result of rappers being so influential it makes others easily convinced.
For example, “The radio was softly playing gospel music” and “She heard the mother cry out and Claud shout,
I must first acknowledge that doing song analysis was a new experience for me as I never had chance to do the activity like it. It was very interesting for me as I dissected, analyzed, and studied further about certain songs in order to gain more knowledge and insight from it. First of all, doing song analysis was extremely helpful for me as I was able to learn not only the musical aspect of the song but also historical background of the song and the author. Often times many people forget that every song has story behind it. Every song writers write their songs based on a truth they have discovered in their daily life.
During the two day observations, I had the opportunity to experience how Mrs. Carbone teaches listening, speaking, & pronunciation by incorporating different approaches. During my first observation, the class was a follow up class designed to promote listening skills and oral language development. Mrs. Carbone explained that the class
What all goes into writing a song? How did the artist come up with that idea? What was going through their head? Writing a song can be a long process. For some artist it can take up to three months to write a song, for others they can write a song in five minutes or less.
VEDANT VASHIST YEAR 10 ENGLISH CLOSE READING- POETRY Poetry is a type of writing in which the outflow of emotions and thoughts are expressed by writers in rhyme, comparisons and representations. Poetry has been used for a significant long time to show humor, romance and to impart feeling to others, for example, it could be about something interesting, exciting that happened on your approach to class and you want to recall it. In now days, poetry has been used as lyrics as a part of the subject matter of the song. The song "just the way you are" by Bruno Mars and the poem “Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare are a piece of poetry.
The arts in education can impact a person 's success in education. “A well-rounded educational experience that includes the arts is closely linked to academic achievement, social and emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity” (Velasco). Adding fine arts into the educational experience has strong benefits in and outside of the classroom. Studying the lyrics of music can teach students about syllabification, phonics, vocabulary, imagery, history, myths, folktales, geography, and culture.
We had many class discussions that brought on a few arguments, however I was so interested to hear everyone’s ideas on grammar. My Pedagogical Grammar class helped me to see my views on grammar and how I wanted to teach my students. While the traditional method of teaching grammar is important,