ESL Through Music
I have found this website and I have read it carefully because it belong to my musical career.
The website is bringing to the table some sources and articles to support his view of thr powerful music in term of teaching languages.
Her is the first one.
Teaching English with Songs and Music
The researcher says that there are many ways to fill the blanks. He gives the student an opportunity to listen to a song and then fill in the blanks in the second time. This activity is twenty minutes long. Filling the blanks can be very useful when teaching verbs like the past simple.
Strips of The Paper
Diving the students into two groups and dividing the lyrics between them in order to make some competition is second idea.
Relaxation
The writer admits that when he brings instrumental music or classical music with very low sound the students feel very relax.
Guided Fantasy
There is another way of helping students to expand their imagination and their expressive use of popular music.
The teacher prepares a text relate and then the students closed their eyes and leaves them the opportunity to imagine.
The Students’ Proficiency Level and The Type of Lyrics Used.
In term of filling the blanks a few words would be given to the beginning class. On the other hand more words would be given to the advance class.
In term of the lyrics they are simple and repetitive words.
http://www.eslgames.com/edutainment/songs.htm
http://www.caslt.org/resources/english-sl/classroom-resource-links-music_en.php
Dear Colleagues this is my review to an article that match with many ways I have tried for my teaching technique.
ReplyDeleteMusic and Language Learning
By Bob Lake
Introduction
Bob Lake is a teacher using music as a tool for learning languages (ESL) and his students mostly are emigrants. He says that "Music is three dimensional".
Music helps student to think critically
Children
When the baby needs something it does not speak but it uses uttering words reflect the needs. Mother understands that and meets those needs.
This is one of the evidence that the child can understand and learn a second language.
The researcher used ( Krashen's Hyposesis) theory (A theorist that I will post a blog about in this semester) to answer his research question. He came to understanding that the most three valuable components are the affective filter, the monitor model and natural input.
Relaxation versus Anxiety
Students need to be relaxed. According to the situation that they are away form their motherland's culture that might give them some anxiety.
And the wondrous magic of music and can overcome the fear and the anxiety of the students. The researcher says that when he was teaching some of these students who suffer from loneliness and distance from home as well as cultural difference, after one of the students played the accordion, all the emotions came together listening and dancing. Music is really international.
Level of Understanding
According to the researcher language learners should be exposed to a higher level and music is very helpful in that.
This type of theory called (1+one formula) Created by Krashen. The writer believes that the chorus is easy than the verse in the songs so students can pick it up quickly and gave some examples for that. The researcher explained the usages of natural input and the role of the brain in that matter.
Cultural Differences
Cultural differences between the various ethnic groups play an important role in the learning process of speaking a language other than English. Some of the learners who have their brain on the right they deal well with drawings. On the other hand those who have their brain to the left are thinkers and analytic students.
In addition to Krashen's theory, there is a personal experience of the researcher where his career started as a teacher volunteers. The experiment started with the children and also young people.
The District Administrator Comment
At the end of the year the District Administrator commented on substantial improvement of pronunciation by singing.
He also added that the music helped stroke patients and those who had incidents and whose ability to speak was weakened by that.
Conclusion
The researcher expressed assertion about the attraction of people to speak, accompanied by propaganda and said it quick access to the brains of listeners. Also Rhythm and melody and all the rehearsals go to long-term memory. The researcher says that the difficulties in finding an appropriate material for his students made him create his own curriculum.
He concluded by saying that research already shown the power of music to connect the language to students, even if it is difficult.
http://www.dtae.org/adultlit/connections/music.html
Yousif Bilal (Elmosley)
Music and Language Learning