Use of Music and Songs as Pedagogical Tools in Teaching English as Foreign Language Contexts

Abstract

The purpose of this research paper is to demonstrate how music can be used in the classroom by describing several methods and providing resources, as well as to demonstrate why music can benefit foreign language learning by reviewing research on the impact of music-related methods on EFL learning and teaching. The researchers relied upon the previous studies and critical and scholarly texts. This study adopts a descriptive study design, which is comprised of a quantitative study in various contexts. The results demonstrated that the complexity found in the foreign language teaching process emerges from the social and cognitive needs of the EFL learners that in most cases are ignored intentionally or unintentionally. Moreover, the process of second language learning comes with a lot of anxiety and peer pressure. Hence, it is concluded that song and music can certainly be considered as one of the useful language learning tools that aid second language teaching without putting a lot of academic pressure on the learners. The implication that can be inferred is that English teachers need to offer a learning environment that is anxiety free and at the same time serves the purpose of learning through fun activities. Songs and music can be proven to be an effective listening activity that has multiple benefits to offer. Particularly in the case of young and elementary learners, music has been used widely to teach important concepts in a fun way by second language teachers.

A Genre Pedagogy for Teaching Young EFL Learners of English Village of Parit Baru

“…This finding is in line with previous studies that had successfully used songs and games to teach English to primary school students (Ara, 2009;Bhakti et al, 2019;Kumar et al, 2022).…”

Young Learners Preferences on Using Games and Songs for Learning English in EFL Context

“…First area was relating to the English aptitude. Using games in teaching English also improved grammar (Lin et al, 2020), writing (Fu et al, 2019;Dashtestani, 2022), pronunciation (Dashtestani, 2022), listening (Dashtestani, 2022;Kumar et al, 2022), speaking (Dashtestani, 2022), problem-solving Ben El Moudden, 2021; Dashtestani, 2022). The second area was delaing with aptitude such as motivation (Dashtestani, 2022;Ahmed et al, 2022), and positive influence (Boyinbode, 2018;Chen et al, 2019;Fithriani, 2021;Kohnke, 2020).…”

“…The efficacy of games occurs for some skills of language. Games bring a positive influence on vocabulary (Ben El Moudden, 2021;Dashtestani, 2022;Hao et al, 202;Patra et al, 2022), grammar (Lin et al, 2020), writing (Fu et al, 2019;Dashtestani, 2022), pronunciation (Dashtestani, 2022), listening (Dashtestani, 2022;Kumar et al, 2022), speaking (Dashtestani, 2022), problem-solving Ben El Moudden, 2021Dashtestani, 2022), motivation (Dashtestani, 2022;Ahmed et al, 2022). These findings indicated that games helped learn English.…”

“…The studies of using games and songs have invited many researchers to discover the contribution in teaching English to young learners, the so-called EYL (English for young learners) in the EFL context. First, previous studies have examined the efficacy of games in learning English for young learners in the EFL context Ahmed et al, 2022;Amal Shehadeh AlNatour & Dima Hijazi, 2018;Behnamnia et al, 2020;Ben El Moudden, 2021;Dashtestani, 2022;Fu et al, 2019;Hao et al, 2021;Kumar et al, 2022;Lin et al, 2020;Patra et al, 2022).…”

“…The previous research involved elementary school students called English for young learners (Behnamnia et al, 2020;Patra et al, 2022;Kumar et al, 2022). Although recent studies showed that students had shown positive responses for using the game in learning English, those studies applied varied research designs, applying questionnaires Ben El Moudden, 2021), interviews (Dashtestani, 2022), surveys (Dashtestani, 2022), case study (Behnamnia et al, 2020), experimental ones (Amal Shehadeh AlNatour & Dima Hijazi, 2018Fu et al, 2019;Hao et al, 2021;Lin et al, 2020;Patra et al, 2022) Second, previous studies have investigated the efficacy of songs in learning English for young learners in an EFL context (Al-efeshat & Baniabdelrahman, 2020;Nguyen & Nguyen, 2020), in ESL (Al-Smadi, 2020Singh, 2020).…”