ESL teachers can use songs to teach English to students and have achieved great success. ESL songs can bring energy to the classroom, enhance students' self-confidence, and provide a much-needed active learning experience for young students who may become bored or distracted. They are great for adding motivation and excitement to your classroom habits!
Integrate language through songs
Children listen to the whole sentence when they listen to the song; this helps them learn and remember words and phrases while subconsciously learning grammar and grammar. It causes them to naturally use their new vocabulary instead of isolated syllables or words in context.
Repeat by song
Songs that "stuck" in the minds of students lead to a cycle of learning – the more songs they hear, the easier it is to think about it and how easy it is to learn all the words. Songs are a great and exciting alternative to standard reading comprehension because they allow children to participate actively.
Improve classroom management with ESL songs
English songs can also help to quell exciting or destructive lessons - just wear music and you will be amazed at how quickly children can settle down. They can also bring new life and confidence to a group of struggling and overwhelmed students. Just announce a singing time and see the student interest lit up.
English teaching songs cover all learning styles
Language is one of the most complex topics, and English is one of the most complex languages. Songs can help teachers attract a wider range of learning styles:
Auditory learners can easily learn from songs - rhythms and phrases provide the perfect tool for teaching vocabulary and pronunciation, and provide words in context.
Kinetic and tactile learners can benefit from the actions added to the song; use melody, rhythm and lyrics to provide action to help these students absorb knowledge in the way that makes the most sense for them.
Visual learners can be assisted by story pictures or vocabulary cards associated with songs, as well as by watching other students and adding actions that match different words.
Songs build confidence and make learning fun
ESL songs give children the opportunity to learn at their own pace within the group - instead of being selected, they can listen and participate at their own pace, join and learn from the groups around them as they can. They can feel comfortable because everyone else is focused on the course and will slowly build up courage, add new words to their vocabulary and naturally process their pronunciation.
The fact that the song is full of fun means that your students will have the motivation to work harder during the expected singing time. Singing is a dynamic activity that is easy to attract students' attention, especially if hands and body movements are implemented.
Songs can be great memory aids; melody and movements make it easier to memorize words, and the context provides the right use of grammar and grammar. Songs have an incredible way of "holding on to your mind", which is a great thing for English learners.
Obstacles to teaching English with songs
Many English songs are too fast and complex to be used as teaching tools. If the words are spoken too fast for the children to distinguish them, then trying to interpret the lyrics takes too much repetition, leading to frustration and failure.
In addition, ordinary English songs have too many words that can't be actually learned, and the difficulty of words can vary greatly. If the word is too difficult, you will encounter the same problem as above - play the song repeatedly as the student becomes restless and overwhelmed.
Another obstacle is that many popular English songs contain content that may not be suitable for children or may offend different cultures. So how do you overcome these obstacles?
Choosing and implementing songs for English teaching
Finding the songs that are right for your class is critical. Too many words, too fast or difficult to understand the context will only make students confused. This will completely destroy any positive benefits that the song may bring and make the morale of the students low because they will fail rather than succeed.
What you really need is a song tailored for ESL teaching. As you play other activities or games, you can save the English songs for the background music of the mill and choose some repetitive things, simple words and phrases over time.
You can start to use the flashcard to teach vocabulary. This is a good way for children [3-4 years old]. Once they start recognizing words, you can introduce key grammars and start using new vocabulary in the context of sentences and/or phrases.
Continue to play listening game practice vocabulary. Even if your students may not be able to understand all the words at this time, such a preview will gradually change from a simple "hearing" to an active "listening", and will be helpful when listening to the song for the first time.
Using a language game can help you focus your child's attention on specific words. When they hear nouns in the song, they can run and jump on the noun's flash card, or when they hear a word from a set of words fixed on the wall.
Use songs to teach English slower, especially for younger, less experienced students. Play the song two or three times and then put it to the next lesson. Break the song line by line or word by word until you reach the level of student adaptation, and then gradually build on each line until you learn the complete text, then the whole song. This may take a few lessons.
Use these words to make up the actions and implement them into the song. Your students can be a valuable resource here - the imagination of children will bring inspiration! For elementary school students, once they have learned the song, they can proceed and then stay out and occasionally revisit. The lyrics can then be used for spelling, reading and writing activities.
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