Disadvantages Of Songs

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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,

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