Instructing English by Means of Music:A Novel method of Reaching a Foreign Language Successfully

No one can deny the revolutionary role music has had in our lives providing us with joy and peace to offering academic success. In the light of this view, music has been a great role in English Language Teaching (ELT) efforts. Songs are an informative resource for the students to foster their learning due to the fact that songs provide lingual points embedded in their lyrics. In foreign language teaching, activities that have used songs have long been covering a significant part in general skills from grammar to pronunciation. Thus these activities carried out in all classes can differ from basic to the advanced levels according to the level of the students. This article has explored the brilliant impacts music has on teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) which bring about a better teaching method resulting in students’ better understanding. Finally, this article will render the practical steps and tips related to using music in classroom that the authors believe can be achieved through well consideration of music, songs, and their lyrics.

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music , teaching , English as a foreign language , songs