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Using popular Songs in the Second Language Classroom / Ways to exploit themListening skills and Verbal Memory
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Overview
• Uses for Popular songs
• Exploiting them for:
• listening skills
• verbal memory
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What other uses could popular songs have in the second language classroom?
• Classroom atmosphere
• Language input
• Cultural input
• Song as text
• Songs as supplements
• Teaching conversation
• Teaching vocabulary/grammar/phonology
• Teaching and verbal memory
• Student interest
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Listening Skills
Hedge (2000, p.247-252) lists the following activities within a listening lesson:
• Pre – listening (lead-in / prediction)
• While – listening (skim / scan / detail)
• Post – listening (skills extension)
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Pre Listening While Listening Post Listening
1 (Lower level)3 (Higher level)4 (Both)11 (Both)
2 (Lower)5 (Both)12 (Both)14 (Both)16 (Both)17 (Both)19 (Both)20 (Both)
6 (Both)7 (Both/Lower)8 (Higher)9 (Higher)10 (Higher)18 (Higher)
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Verbal Memory
• Aids retention of grammar and lexis
• Important tool for phonological language learning
• Guidelines on gap selection are necessary
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Reading:
Coleman, R. (2014) Exploratory Practice: Researching the impact of songs on EFL learners’ verbal memory. Journal of Second Language Teaching and Research. 3 (1) pp.53-70
http://pops.uclan.ac.uk/index.php/jsltr/article/view/236
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