DIGITAL SONGS

CONTENTSWHAT IS THE DIGITAL SONG?WHY SHOULD WE USE DIGITAL

SONGS IN TEACHING LANGUAGE?HOW CAN TEACHERS USE

DIGITAL SONGS TO TEACH LANGUGE?

EXAMPLES ABOUT USING SONGS IN LESSON

Digital song is a method of representing sound as numeral values.

One of the most well known physical source of digital music is the Compact Disc ( CD ).

WHAT IS THE DIGITAL SONG?

WHY SHOULLD WE USE DIGITAL SONGS IN TEACHING LANGUAGE?

Song is a part of daily life.They contain repetition and enhance

learning.Songs motivate students to learn language.

Song is a good way to teach vocabulary, idioms,phrases.

Students can learn correct pronunciation of words.

Slow songs can help students to learn intonation,elision.

Songs enable bottom-up, top-down processing simultaneously.

HOW CAN TEACHERS USE DIGITAL SONGS TO TEACH LANGUAGE?POSSIBLE TASKTeachers can play a clip and ask

students to talk about what they heard .

Teachers can give a song. Then get students to make up new ending.

Teacher can use two version of song and gets students to compare them . This will be useful for their speaking skills.

Students can write a song. If their grade are high.

He/She can play the song and asks students to design a concept for the video. It will be funny.

Teacher can ask questions about songs.

EXAMPLES:Maria PavanShe is a translator, teacher and

she lives in Argentina.When she tried to teach days;

firstly as a warm-up, she was going to ask students the question “ WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE DAY OF THE WEEK ? WHY?”

She used a song “ Friday I am in Love” by band The Cure

Students received a list of words and phrases from the song

While listening, they wrote the day of week connected that word or phrase in the song.

Students filled in the blank in one part of the song.

Ellie Kagan

She is a course tutor

She makes fiil in the blank exercises.

She teaches vocabulary with songs and this is a speaking activity.

Eva Büyüksimkesyan , She is a EFL teacher

She used Beatles songs. She prepared some materials and asked students to research.

She made activities with songs and students worked as group.