Using Song Lyrics to Enhance Counselor Trainee Perceptions of their Reflective Listening Skills

Abstract

This qualitative study explored counseling student perceptions of the use of song lyrics to practice reflective listening skills. Student perceptions included reactions to a creative technique, increased confidence in reflective skills, applicability of skills, and potential issues with this activity. Results, implications for counselor education, and future research are explored.

Miksi rap on niin hyvä idea? Sosiaalityön opiskelijoiden kuvauksia rap-lyriikan opetuskäytöstä

“…, 2021. Sen lisäksi musiikin ja laululyriikan analyysin on todettu tukevan käytännön sosiaalityölle hyödyllisiä refleksiivisiä kuuntelu-ja vuorovaikutustaitoja sekä mahdollistavan opetustilanteissa moraalisesti vaikeiden ja tunteita herättävien aiheiden tarkastelun turvallisen etäisyyden päästä (Davis & Pereira 2016).…”

Using Song Lyrics Activities to Develop Preparatory Stage Pupils' EFL Listening Skills

“…Žogota (2011 ), Boothe and West (2015), García (2015), Davis and Kearney ( 2015 ) defined song lyrics as a set of words that make up a song, normally comprising verses and melodies. A song is a piece of music with words sung.…”

“…Additionally, song lyrics are valuable for learning vocabulary, phonics, structures, and sentence patterns (Schön, Gordon et al 2005, Ehsanzadeh 2012, Aldera and Mohsen 2013, Florit, Roch et al 2013, Newton 2013, Gilakjani and Sabour 2016. They can be used to strengthen language in light of the fact that the rhythm and tone of these lyrics get added emphasis (Sukmawati 2015, Davis andKearney 2015), so they can enhance EFL learners' perceptual sound discrimination and pronunciation of certain vocabulary and expressions. Song lyrics usually consider pinpoint topics that easily highlight lexical items and sentence patterns in meaningful contexts reflecting the connection between structures and communicative functions (Abbott 2002, Saricoban andMetin 2010).…”

“…In this sense, visual literacy appears to be the way by which people decode symbols for them to make sense of what they are listening (Buck 2001, Villada 2009. Visualization supplements listening comprehension by helping learning deciphering data making a total picture of the surrounding context (Peachey 2002, Villada 2009, Saricoban and Metin 2010, Kahraman 2008, Davis and Kearney 2015 .…”

“…The use of music and song lyrics for teaching active listening skills, according to participants, allow for the deeper understanding of the practice experience. Creative methods have been shown to be effective in the development of a variety of skills such as listening (Villalba and Redmond 2008, Iarussi, Tyler et al 2013, Davis and Pereira 2016. This conceptualization provided participants with a better ability to express reflective statements that relate to the emotional content in a more genuine and consequential manner (Stinchfield 2006, Villalba and Redmond 2008, Pereira and Smith-Adcock 2013.…”