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LARISSA TATIANA RICO BUITRAGO - [email protected]

LUIS CARLOS ESTRADA [email protected]

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

Pat Conroy

OUTLINEOUTLINE

METHODOLOGMETHODOLOGYY

Is it worthy?

How?

Insights on how to use them in class. (Samples)

Considerations and drawbacks

RESOURCERESOURCESS

Video sound and lyrics

Poetry – Rhymes - short stories and songs

Tasks and activities

REFERENCEREFERENCESS

METHODOLOGYMETHODOLOGY

Is it worthy? Is it worthy? Adapted from B. Council, Hong Kong 2005Adapted from B. Council, Hong Kong 2005

““I just I just can’t can’t get you get you out of out of of head”of head”Kylie MinogueKylie MinogueCf. Kavanagh Cf. Kavanagh (2008)(2008)

Avoid feelings of embarrassment in production

“Krashen suggests that the repetitive element of songs activates Chomsky’s LAD” Promotes exploration of new sounds

It goes beyond everyday language and classroom level

It promotes cooperative learning.



You are the music while the music lasts.~ T. S. Eliot

Sense of ownership of the song Sense of ownership of the song and the languageand the language

Practice of difficult soundsPractice of difficult sounds

Rhytm and intonationRhytm and intonation

Children engage in egocentric Children engage in egocentric language language (Piaget 1923)(Piaget 1923)

Can be used in any stage of the Can be used in any stage of the lesson.lesson.



“Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear”.Billy Gibbons

Short and long term memory (Murphy 1990)

Parents like it, therefore they reinforceRelaxing and promote harmony

Short, authentic and easy.

They help children with speech problems therefore promotes confidence

They give new insights into the target culture.


RelaxationGuided fantasy.

Drills or cloze texts. Focus questions.

True-false statements. Put lines into the correct sequence.

Dictation .Add a final verse.

Give names to pictures.Write missing words.

Find intruders.Error detection and correction

Circle the antonyms/synonyms of the given words.

Discuss.Find the hidden lyrics.

EXAMPLEEXAMPLE

Dear friend,

Do you know how it feels when someone leaves you without saying good-bye? For sure you do, now I remember that

the same thing happened to you some months ago with your last boyfriend. It is summer here but it feels like winter

in my heart.

It is a hot summer, the hottest in many years, the streets and the pavements are burning. I don’t know what to do. I

sit around. I spend some minutes in the park trying to smile as I see some children happily playing but the air is so

heavy and dry that I just couldn’t do it. I am walking around another corner of this big city.

Everyone is laughing here but I only hear strange voices that are saying something on my mind (What did they say?) they

say things that I can’t understand. It is all confusion inside of me. For most of them, it’s too close to comfort.

This heat is wonderful and I know that he has got happiness right out of hand without me by his side.

It’s a cruel summer! I don’t care about anyone and it is leaving me here doing all on my own. It’s such a cruel

summer

that I say to myself: now you’re gone but you’re not the only one. Anyone can see it, the city is crowded with happy

people, my friends are away because we all have different lives and I’m on my own. It’s too hard to handle! I

wonder if I am going to feel better tomorrow.

Excuse me for complaining so much my dear friend, I really needed to tell someone about all this. I’ve been

thinking of leaving away… I don’t know if it is right…So I gotta get up right now and go on!

Sincerely,

Pam.

EXAMPLEEXAMPLE

It is a hot summer, the hottest in many years, the streets and the pavements are burning.

I don’t know what to do. I sit around. I spend some minutes in the park trying to smile

as I see some children happily playing but the air is so heavy and dry that I just couldn’t

do it. I am walking around another corner of this big city.

Everyone is laughing here but I only hear strange voices that are saying something on my

mind (What did they say?) they say things that I can’t understand. It is all confusion

inside of me. For most of them, it’s too close to comfort. This heat is wonderful and

I know that he has got happiness right out of hand without me by his side. It’s a cruel

summer! I don’t care about anyone and it is leaving me here doing all on my own. It’s

such a cruel Summer that I say to myself: now you’re gone but you’re not the only one.

Anyone can see it, the city is crowded with happy people, my friends are away because

we all have different lives and I’m on my own. It’s too hard to handle! I wonder if I

am going to feel better tomorrow.

Excuse me for complaining so much my dear friend, I really needed to tell someone

about all this. I’ve been thinking of leaving away… I don’t know if it is right…So I gotta get up right now and go on!


TIPS WHEN WORKING WITH SONGS

BEFORE THE LESSON: STUDENTS’ PROFILE. AIM OF THE LESSON (LANGUAGE ITEM)

DURING THE LESSON: PRE-LISTENING:

Reading, brainstorming, speaking activity. WHILE LISTENING:

Techniques POST –LISTENING.

Reaction towards the song, feelings, acting out the song, impressions, write about experiences!

CONSIDERATIONS AND DRAWBACKSCONSIDERATIONS AND DRAWBACKS


INCORRECT Grammar AND slang

It could be overwhelming: TOO MANY WORDS Not every one likes all the songs

The teacher ought to know the lyrics

It takes time for students to react

Do not take the fun away from the song

RESOURCESRESOURCES

Ations by Shel Silverstein

If we meet and I say, "Hi,"That's a salutation. If you ask me how I feel,That's consideration.If we stop and talk a while,That's a conversation.If we understand each other, That's communication. If we argue, scream and fight,That's an altercation.

If later we apologize, That's reconciliation.If we help each other home,That's a cooperation.And all these actions added up Make Civilization.

(And if I say this is a wonderful poem, Is that exaggeration?)

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Video, audio, transcripts and lyrics

RESOURCESRESOURCES

Video, audioaudio, transcripts and lyrics

CONCLUSIOCONCLUSIONSNS

Every kind of choice we make in teaching must depend

on different variables.

Variety is the spice of life!.

Different kinds of meaningful and authentic input is

motivating for the students.

Songs and chants can be used in varied ways… It just

depends on our creativity and imagination to design

appealing, challenging, and meaningful tasks to the

students!.

material

student

teacher

REFERENCEREFERENCESS

Eken, D.K. (1996). Ideas for using songs in the English language classroom. English Teaching FORUM, 34/1:46-47

Garcia-Saez, C. 1984. The use of songs in class as an important stimulus in the learning of a language. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/using-songs-with-young-

learners.html http://www.youtube.com