The benefits of listening to english music to improve listening skill

1 DONG NAI UNIVERSITY FOREIGN LANGUAGE FACULTY The benefits of listening to English music to improve listening skill Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy Ho Nguyen Minh Thu Tran Thi Thuy Trang Research writing DHNNA06B Instructor: Nguyen Van Nam Bien Hoa, November,2017 Outline Thesis statement: Music is one kind of ways to improve English listening skill I II III IV Using music to help with your English studies Music is useful for learning English A Pronunciation B Vocabulary C Grammer D Communication E Culture There are various ways you can use music when improving your English listening skills A Write down lyrics B Look up the lyrics C Listen and read D Add words to your vocabulary book E Listen to the song several times Listening music through media A Television B CD C Radio D Internet The Benefits of Listening to Music English to Improve Listening Skill “Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life” (Beethoven).There are many students learn to learn English hard and enjoy listening to English songs, can tune to the music without realizing it is also a source of learning English is really rich and useful Turn them into simple listening exercises so you can better understand the song and how to pronounce difficult words, how to gulp or connect sounds while singing You will love English much more Music is one kind of ways to improve English listening skill You can help you for English Learning English is never easy and understanding what native speakers are saying is one of the hardest parts Whether it’s the speed of the language or the pronunciation, it’s easy to get during a conversation Listening to music can help overcome these obstacles and improve your English listening skills Learn a new language is difficult, no matter who you are and how much experience you have, there are solutions to help you through this process When it comes to learning a new language, music can be a great help You will not be able to translate the English words and phrases, but it will be a more polished and enjoyable learning English When learning English, there is a rule that applies to all who are learning that is to have fun If learning is fun, it will be more effective - and it is true to learn anything new, not just a language This is a soundtrack goes! Audio can help to push the anode more in a class, which can help you improve your English in a short amount of time The research for found music can have a positive effect on the program's identity In a test of 30 students, you know that many questions are completed and many questions were corrected when complete listening to music, with the complete work in silence Music is not only extremely poised for learning, but also helps you remember English words and phrases through repetitive Songs and music often contain a lot of useful vocabulary, phrases and expressions, and more, many sounds and sounds in a song are looped, this makes them easy in mind myself Tunes and songs that are often trapped in your mind can not recognize it, which is known as a headache The loopback is important to weighting when studying a new language It is important to phrase and phrase that you have understood in your practice and that whatever you learn new will not just be forgotten That's why music creates great help when learning a new language Learn English through music and songs where you can learn languages you will not find in textbooks or tutorials Many of the terms derived from popular music have been used in English, such as YOLO, the abbreviation for "You only live once," Bling, a word used to describe the map and Diss (or dis) a term that means can not show respect Some of the best musicians to help you learn English include: The Beatles, thanks to their intriguing melodies and simple songs, Ed Sheeran, thanks to their related songs and One Direction, thanks to the song Their simplicity and their related stories (LCT EASTBOURNE, 2017) Scientists have demonstrated the effect of music on learners to develop grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation There is a method of learning language through music called "Mozart Effect" This method focuses on allowing students to listen to classical music for increased efficiency as well as relaxation during the learning process This shows that music has a very good effect on human memory Music and singing are useful methods to improve your ability and make a difference in your language learning So, always be confident to sing your favorite English songs and not worry if your voice is not good.( Hai My,2016) Music can also be a creative way to increase your student body I like to play music when my students are doing homework This will create an environment for students to concentrate and relax while organizing ideas and choosing words I also use a variety of music to help students increase vocabulary and learn synonyms For example, I play a gentle classical music collection and ask students to record all the features you remember When they finish work, I will let them share the words they write Students have many words that they can share and teach each other For higher students, this creates an excellent opportunity to discuss the different languages of the word For example, students discuss differences between words like "sad" and "sad" or "calm" and "peace" Then I introduce more types of music to evoke from the vibroid, happy, or happy Some works fun to use with older students carrying a record of the song and giving the student a document with everything from the seventh or the ten Playing a lesson and have many more random students This is very difficult because you can not perform very fast, and speak the language and talk about other language I have these requirements always ask for this, If you are doing work, as well as the song when they have all the words Finally, music can be a powerful tool for learning new concepts or recording information Lisa Grigorieff, a kindergarten teacher and first grader, wrote in the clear sense of how music is used to learn the alphabet She uses the tune from "Who are the dogs out?" For example, "Who gives A?" Young students are singing and dancing when repeating the words using a modern, attractive Grigorieff said, "[The student] retains this letter better than the person who did not the song, and started writing about DIBELS with the word" Nonsense " (Kistina,R) "We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams." – Arthur O'Shaughnessy (as quoted in the film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory) Before "high stakes tests" were invented, teachers created their own "high stakes tests." My high school civics teacher required that each student write from memory the preamble to the Constitution in order to pass the class If you recall, the preamble starts, "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union…" and goes on for about six lines Thankfully, all my years of watching TV were not a total waste of time (as my mother warned me they would be) I had watched the School House Rock series on Saturday mornings and remembered a cartoon and song with the preamble to the Constitution in the lyrics I sang that song to myself during the test and passed with ease This memory has always reinforced to me that music can be a strong tool for memorization and learning new information Language learning offers a unique and exciting opportunity to integrate music Many people have had the experience of learning a world language and singing simple, silly songs in class The introduction of music provides a light-hearted and fun way to interact with another language and culture.(Kristina,R.) Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong Pronunciation is the way in which a word or name is pronunced.(Oxford Dictionary,2008) Listener can improve the pronunciation when they hear the singers say the right pronunciation and learn the pronunciation from it Listening to music help listener get used to the difficult topics in English such as the ligature, sound connections, the tone up and down,…The featured of the songs is that the tune is very plentiful.So, listener can hear and sing to practise both phonetic anh intonation in sentences(Nguyen Manh Truong) Fatnia (2016) denied that the pronunciation of words can be improved by listening English songs The way to improve is when listen to English music, listener can repeat the pronunciation of the word that said in the song So, people who listen to the English song can learn about the pronunciation from the word of song The other way to improve the pronunciation is that listener write the word in the song, after they search the right pronunciation in dictionary and said it like the dictionary said(Fatnia,2016) Through the English song, listener can improve vocabulary because there are some vocabularies in the song.Listener will get used to listening familiar to unfamiliar words.So, they can easily recongize many synonyms of the word Example, “eternal” and “everlasting” are the synonym words in English, they have same meaning and with the listening music listener can know them Besides, there are some idioms and listener can learn more idioms in the song For example, idiom is “miss the boat”, it doesn’t mean that people miss the boat, actually that means miss the chance To improve the vocabulary through the listening English music, listener should take a note, remember the words and look up the synonyms the word that said in the song.Thereby , listener can know the meaning of the word that said by the speakers and get better soccerin listening tasks than others don’t listen to music (Jamilatul,2016) Language is really just imitation When newborns, children's thinking has not formed, they learn the language in this way: imitation, repetition As the human brain grows stronger in logical thinking, remembering and learning everything is based on logic Without logic we learn very hard When learning a new word, for example, "fish" is "fish", it is just learned by heart but no logic here It is like remembering a phone number 0900039787, for example, merely memorizing it through repeating it repeatedly A professor, a doctor, or an ordinary person who memorizes this phone number they share in a way to remember All is just memorization thanks to the repetition! So to memorize English, it is very important that we need repetition many times When we listen to music, we can listen to a favorite song without being bored Songs are meaningful or should be easy to remember, especially the ones that I like So automatically, we will have the repetition of English structures repeatedly without any investment, just relax In addition, the chorus are repeated many times throughout the song So the more I repeat that sentence structure Plus the impressive sound of the song left in our head, we remember much easier than the dry lessons.For example, you will learn a lot of grammar in a verse of the song “I swear” by the group All for one: “I swear by the moon and the stars in the sky and I swear like the shadow that's by your side ” First, “stars” is a plural noun, one must have “s” in it.Second, We learn the preposition “in the sky” rather than “on the sky” Third, “that’s by your side” we can learn the structure using a clause after “that” to modify the word “shadow” in front of it(Nguyen Manh Truong) Blethers (2013) states that music can stimulate the whole brain and senses.Because of this,music teaches people many skills Music and communication are closely related to each other Nowadays,there are a number of studies that support the idea that early music exposure has the benifits of developing communication and literacy skills.First, we will think about some communication skills that we learn through the listening music: maintain focus, learn to listen, oral communication and visual communication, develop vocabulary and sentencesperception of phonetics, Music teaches you the culture of English speaking countries.Not only you benifits from the language, you also absorb the thoughts and feelings of people across the globe.With many songs or imformation about famous artists, you also have a lot to talk to in English (Vietnamexpress,2017).According to Alberttoalchieri (2017),music can also increase your cultural understanding and awareness Many songs talk about great stories and can teach you a lot about love, life, tradition, history, philosophy, literature, and more A great example of a storytelling song is “Hurricane,” a wonderful story of sports, racism and history told by Bob Dylan, the most recent Nobel Prize for Literature Ho Nguyen Minh Thu Wang (2011) denied that when you want to improve your English listening skills, we should write down lyrics whether you understand or not Next, you can ask yourself questions to understand the lyrics and you need to compare with the original of the lyrics When listening to a song, you need to hear it over and over again to get the full work in the song This job requires the hard work and patient of the listener We should listen to music with the mood For example, when you are sad, you should listen to light music, on the contrary, when you are feeling fun or want to relax, you should listen to lively music If you have difficulty understanding the lyrics by listening, you 10 needs to be selected the another song because it will helps you don’t feed tired or boring by Kahraman (2008) Other than listening to English, you also read in English to quickly learn words and phrases commonly used in conversations We can look up the lyrics on the youtube, laptop or the mass media to read as so it will help form the habit and little by little make you improving listening English skills After you look at the lyrics several time, you should out the lyrics and self singing along to his memory It just helps to exercise the brain at once the better listen If want to learn better listening, you need translate them into your native language so you will understand mean the lyrics When you usually look at the lyrics, you will get familiar with vocabulary, phrease or may be the sentence structure of the native According to Mecartty (2000, pp 323 – 350) maintained that to improve listening skill, you should combine listening and reading It helps you remember vocabulary, pronunciation and develop better listening Hear your favorite song, read the lyrics several time, you will be familiar with the second language This is a very important process, as soon as listening and reading, the brain will match the sound of words with the letters of the word This process helps us review known words, learn new words as sounds When you study listening to English, Vocabulary is indispensable in the process of listening to English If you want to better listening to English, you needs add words to your vocabulary book Take note of all the vocabulary or phrase that you feel important and necessary 11 Simpson ( 2015) notes that when you go through the meaing of vocabulary, idiom or phrase, illustrating with other examples because it will help you remember longer This is very good as you learn to listen It has recently been claimed The British Council (1981, pp 10 – 16) that we usually boring and tired when star listening to English because we don’t understand meaning the lyrics so improving vocabulary is extremely important with all people Good vocabulary will help you listen confidently and move with your listening Creating a habit of recording important word and reviewing them help you improving your English listening skill quickly However, Lems (2001) says that when you listen to music, you needs choose song have the lyrics be clear, vocabulary be suitables for the present your ability When listening to your favorite music, you can listen to the song several time This is useful for training your lisstening skills John (2008) says that when we start hear english, we must listen to favorite song or can see your idol are singing Moreover, Lieb (2008) notes that the length of the song should be controlled within from three to five minutes, because songs that too long or too hard may disperse students’interests It help you feed fun and excitement which is very important in improving the listening skill Listen to the song several time, you will know and understand the lyrics so feed comfortable and have motivate yourself to try harder Listening to many times from easy to hard help improve your vocabulary, reflex english skills Further, they can improve their ability to communicate In short, write down and look up the lyrics, listen and read, add words to your vocabulary book and listen to the song several are various ways you can use music when improving your English listening skills From begin English listening learning, special learning to listen to english music, we should applied mastering steps on to better listening 12 Nguyen Thi Phuong Thuy Learn is to get knowledge or skill in a subject So, people need media to get the knowledge Also, listening english music through media help to learn listening english better There are many media that can used when listening such as television, CD, radio or Internet ( Sanggam 2008) There are many unique benefits that only television shows have to offer people who want to improve listening skill through music You can learn all day with standard songs through tivi.(Pinartarhan) Some popular music channels help you to practise listening English: +MTV +Channel V +YanTV The channels on tivi are subtitled in Vietnamese if you don't understand, you can see the subtitles below and take note new words If it is an English subtitle, let's write down that new words after find in dictionary Try listening frequently, even if you busy, only open up and hear everyday about 15minutes For a long time, you can see your progress(iGIS-Pham Van-st) A kind of media which help to improve listening skills with music is CDs Nowadays, the more develope Internet technology, the more outdated CDs are Online music has dominated the market so people don't relize the benefits of these CDs With these CDs, this is fantastic if you really like bank and want to know who wrote this song and see beautiful photigraphs and artwork You can listen and reate the lyrics in the cover or you can probably look up to the lyrics online Sometime, you can get song 13 content in the CD booklet with an album download Its is easy to carry and read anywhere.( Editorial pieces 2013) Also, Radio is one of the best and the most effective ways to improve your English listening skills If also, you can really maximize your time by listening to online radio stations in English Not only improving your listening skill, but also gain speaking fluency and better pronunciation.( Victoriazurakowshi).You need to find the good channel that really makes you pay attention and interested For example, if you like to listen love songs, you should definitely try listening it Although radio is so hard to understand, listening to radio is quiet useful Because the native speech will improve gradually Even if you don't understand what it says, you brain gets used to the rhythms of English and you can improve your listening skills without noticing.(Alena) Some of music radio station which help you to listen better: +Love songs +Pop +Hip Hop +Folk There has been a rapid increase in the develope of Internet facilites because people demand for more interesting and innovative application of the technology When have trouble or don't know, learners get online help Morever, many people want to learn or use computer skills, so the developement of computer skill a long with developing language skill.(Lindsay 2003).You can find English music easily and everywhere through the attention of the media about the famous songs You will easily find the most popular songs and the best songs through tracking the hot music channel in 14 Youtube, the ranking of the world such as Billboard, Itune, MTV, Sound Cloud so as to start to practising listening and study English with music.There are sources specialize in practicing listening to English through music: - Lyrics training: help to improve your listening skill through music and song lyrics and pick up a foreign language You choose a music video When the video start, some words are missed and you have to full that words(Lisa Hoover 2010) -Studynhac.vn: English-Vietnamese bilingual subtitles, English lyrics and Vietnamese translation which help to improve listening skill, speaking skill and vocabulary -Learning English with songs in ESOL Courses: the content of the question is thorough and diverse Practising your English listening skills and improving your pronunciation with fun song quizzes If you spend enough time to every forms of above-mentioned media, you will definitely make your English fluently and get used to listening English (Alene) Suzannne L.Media point out that Music helps person who learn second language improve grammar, vocabulary and spelling So, let's maintain this pleasant and happy routine everyday, enjoy good music, relax your soul that English still in the heart and mind Tran Thi Thuy Trang 15 References: Wang,H.(2011).An Exploration on Designing College English Listening Class.Finland: Academy Publisher Mecartty, 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