Thursday, December 9, 2010

Using songs to teach English faster and more effective - http://bit.ly/ec5lpA

The hardest task for teachers is teaching English youngest students – they are not particularly careful, easily distracted and bored. If you can find a way to get their attention for longer time, and make them repeat few times the words and phrases you will be much more successful in this process. One trick you can use is using songs to boost children interest to learning, and be more successful teacher than ever.

First major effect you will notice is thanks to the fact that children hear and process whole sentences. Songs will help them create connections between the words in their minds, and lead to them feeling the right context environment for each word more naturally.

Another advantage is the fact you may repeat same song many times without kids getting bored by it, and if you combine it with some other activity, you will be able to reach the repetitions count that will embed the new material in children minds, leading to more stable learning, that will stay in the head of the students for ever.

The much greater fun factor also ensures active cooperation of the pupils or students, because they will participate in the learning process and not feel as isolated single students but as a part of the whole.

Choosing the exact song for your lesson may be very tricky task. If it is too fast, or too many words must be learned, you risk loosing the focus and attention of your young auditory, and the whole effect of learning through ESL songs too.

General English songs will most certainly do the trick. Save them for a background to keep children listening to all these words, but they are generally too complex for youngsters to be interested for long time, and less fun then the specially created for the task ESL songs. These contain repeating short phrases, the music is slow and allows the listener to get all the information intended for him. If the fastly developing brain of the child is given enough time, the phrase or words and their context words will be firmly embedded in the subconscious mind, helping them understand and use this information without thinking.

If you decide to use ESL songs to improve your teaching, be sure to read a lot of additional guides and materials before you start, and aid yourself with more traditional methods such as flash cards with phrases and letters, you’ve used till now, and combine them with the new styles of song learning to achieve better, and stable results.

If you succeed you will understand almost instantly it was well worth the effort.

Article Source: http://learnlanguages.maxupdates.tv/using-songs-to-teach-english-faster-and-more-effective/

Shared and posted by TESOL certification, Natalie

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