TEACHING WITH
MUSIC
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p
arlos Santana once said; "music can change your
molecular structure". The "Mozart Effect" is a set of
research results indicating that listening to Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart's music can, in a nutshell, make you
smarter. It is, also, believed that early music training
helps to develop brain areas involved in language and
reasoning. In class, students may have a lack of
interest and it is important to motivate them and make
them want to participate activities.
One way of doing this is through music. It is a fun and
relaxing way to teach children and music helps to ease
students’ anxiety.When singing and interacting in class,
students are learning vocabulary, pronunciation,grammar,
activite their listening skills and the rythm of the
language without realizing that they are learning. Apart
from music and songs being great learning tools, they
are also great for class management.
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Songs are great
for having a welcoming atmosphere in the classroom.They are
great because they stick to the student even after they’ve
left the classroom.Some classes have students which have
different language levels and abilities,but with young
learners we can not really seperate them, so, with songs
students who know english will stil have fun singing the
songs and practice their pronunciation and the students who
does not know will still dance while singing parts of the
song as they learn. With young learners they normally have
very high energy levels and others are a bit down and this
creates a difficult atmosphere in class. So starting class
with a high energy, song allows students with high energy
levels to burn some of their energy and come down a little
and students with low energy levels move around a little and
they get more or less on the same level. With kids this is
important to focus better on the lesson. Children are like
sponges they just suck everything in and are fast learners.Learning
with songs and music just makes it more fun and easier for
them to learn.
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Yollanda
KARAMAHMUTOĞLU
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