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“Hip Hip Hooray!” Improving Second Language Proficiency of Young Learners through Music

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“Hip Hip Hooray!” Improving Second Language Proficiency of Young Learners through Music

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  1. Researchernames “Hip Hip Hooray!”Improving Second Language Proficiency of Young Learners through Music This is a sample to guide you but feel free to make this reflect your personality and the nature of your study.

  2. How does music help elementary ESL students improve their language proficiency? How do topics in the songs motivate their learning? How does the frequency of listening to a CD help improve vocabulary? Research Questions

  3. Methods of Data Collection Research Question: How do songs (music) help elementary ESL students improve their language proficiency?

  4. Identifying themes: Look for patterns that emerge from data collected and their relation to literature. Reflective memo: Document written during the pretest and the postest. Bar graphs: from surveys Methods of Data Analysis

  5. Students need to know that listening to songs help them improve their proficiency. • The more times a song is played, the easier for students to recall it. • Songs by themselves do not provide the visual component to help students improve written proficiency. Findings

  6. Teachers should • Teach language learning strategies inductively. • Maximize the use of songs in classrooms activitites. • Use the lyrics of the songs to teach spelling of new vocabulary. Action Plan

  7. Sample Slide Sample Slide Sample Slide Conclusions Similarities Differences Music enhances learning because it lowers the ‘affective filter’ (Krashen) Students found that music helped them relax Songs by themselves do not provide the visual component to help students improve written proficiency. Blodgett (2003) and Smith (2007) found enhanced vocabulary learning with music. Number of vocabulary words learned increased the more songs were repeatedly played. Keep the Conclusion slides to a maximum of 4. Pick only the most relevant connections.

  8. Example Conclusions Similarities Differences Theory ·2 Relevant study(s)

  9. AlternativeFormat Conclusions

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