Listening to your favorite songs is a great way to practice and learn a new language. I’m sure your students love music, and that’s why these activities are so engaging and powerful.
In this post, we are going to understand better why it is so important to use music as a powerful resource of teaching. In fact, there are various ways we can benefit from listening to music.
Music can:
- Improves concentration
- Improves memory
- Motivates learning
- Relax the students
- Makes the learning fun
Function: engage students in speaking and understanding the English language, while reinforcing the fundamentals of language and communication.
Benefits: t is an amazing tool for helping students to acquire language as well as stimulating students’ brains, improving their memory, and bringing lots of joy. Furthermore, what makes music such a great teaching tool is its ability to connect cultures and languages of students, regardless of their age and cultural backgrounds.
Music is one of the best and most motivating resources in the classroom. They contain authentic language, are easily obtainable, provide vocabulary, grammar and cultural aspects and are fun for the students. They provide enjoyable speaking, listening, vocabulary and language practice both in and out of the classroom. So EFL, English as a foreign language, ESL, English as a Second language and foreign language teachers should all consider using songs as a regular part of their classroom activities.
Songs can be used to open or close a class, to introduce or review topics.
What are the benefits of listening to songs
- Create a positive atmosphere.
- Help to balance energy levels. Music can be used to calm down an over-excited class or to wake up a sleepy one. If you know that your students have high energy levels and sometimes need to calm down, try playing some relaxing music to put on as they work.
- Allow everyone to participate.
- Allow for a quick review.
- Are sticky.
- Lower anxiety.
- Helps the development of the language and influence short and long-term memory.
Slow or fast, hard or light. Everybody loves music. Well, almost everybody! In conclusion, the use of songs inside and outside the classroom is highly recommended because of all the advantages explained above. It increases the listening skills, the understanding of new words, and comprehension of the meaning of the lyrics, plus it makes the class more dynamic and fun.
So, keep your playlist updated and enjoy the worksheets and activities you can find in this blog. Have fun teaching!🎸🥁🎻
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