Importance to teach English through songs

Most children and teenager enjoy singing songs, and they can often be a welcome change from the routine of learning a foreign language. For the teacher, using songs in the classroom can also be a nice break from following a set curriculum. Songs can be taught to any number of students and even those teachers with the most limited resources can use them effectively. Songs can play an important role in the development of language in young children learning a second language.

Songs as Pedagogical Tools 

One advantage of using songs in the young learner classroom is their flexibility. Songs can be used for a number of purposes and there are many reasons why songs can be considered a valuable pedagogical tool. Songs can help young learners improve their listening skills and pronunciation, therefore potentially helping them to improve their speaking skills (Murphey, 1992). Songs can also be useful tools in the learning of vocabulary, sentence structures, and sentence patterns.

Why use songs in EFL Classroom?

It is important for many reasons such as:

1. It is an authentic Material
2. Do Active and dynamic class
3. Help pronunciation
4. Increase vocabulary
5. Know a new culture
6. Songs are repetitive.
7. Learn grammar structure
8. They are adaptable to needs
9. Students like to listen songs.

Here I let you to see a song as example to how to teach English through songs.

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