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REINFORCING THE LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH SONGS: A FRENCH LANGUAGE CASE STUDY

REINFORCING THE LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH SONGS: A FRENCH LANGUAGE CASE STUDY Patchani PATABADI BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY September 28, 2013. INTRODUCTION Songs as tools for teaching foreign language – status Approach to the presentation:

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REINFORCING THE LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH SONGS: A FRENCH LANGUAGE CASE STUDY

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  1. REINFORCING THE LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH SONGS: A FRENCH LANGUAGE CASE STUDY Patchani PATABADI BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY September 28, 2013.

  2. INTRODUCTION • Songs as tools for teaching foreign language – status • Approach to the presentation: • Focus on the hobby of learners to increase speed and easiness in language acquisition by integrating ‘listening to songs’ into the activities developed for teaching/learning and assessing rules in a lesson. • Present aspects of language that can be taught with songs, and • Give some suggestions on how to integrate songs in language teaching curriculum

  3. BENEFITS OF SONGS ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION • Benefits of Songs: 1. Improve the Oral Skills • The Listening Sample song: J’aime les fruits (I like fruits), Alain le Lait (1:53) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ03KjwiIVM • Find clearly articulated songs • Find a catchy melody fora more fun class • More fun = more energy • Stimulate brain for memorization • The Speaking (pronunciation/language and culture) Sample song: Les Champs Elysees. Joe Dassin (2:45) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7-UcdcK4AA • Native singers help with pronunciation • Learn culturalandlinguistic aspects of language FundaKeskin (2011, 379), “…songs … reflect culture and transmit cultural values between people, societies and generations”

  4. BENEFITS OF SONGS ON FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION 2. Boost up learning • Catch attention • Increase desire and motivate the learner • Quickassimilation 3. Reduce Learning time CfSchon and her colleagues’ comparative study of word segmentation using ‘listening to songs’ to Saffran and her colleagues’ for same exercise using ‘listening to texts’ (achieved results - 7min // 21min).

  5. STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES OF INTEGRATING TEACHING THROUGH SONGS IN LANGUAGE CLASSES

  6. STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES OF INTEGRATING TEACHING THROUGH SONGS IN LANGUAGE CLASSES

  7. TEACHING GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY THROUGH SONGS • Teaching vocabulary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hFw_cWg9U, Alouette (3:17). Alain le Lait – teaching the body parts of a bird (As an example of activity), the instructor can have students: In addition to relative activities stated above, • Make gestures to show the different parts being listed in the song • Identify the singular/plural, masculine and feminine nouns and articles and how they accord, etc. • Say the different body parts in the order they are said in the song

  8. TEACHING GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY THROUGH SONGS • Teaching grammar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo2Hb6h4qe4, Promenons-nous dans les bois (2:23). Teaching tenses, articles, singular and plural forms, etc. The instructor can have students: • Identify the tenses (present/conditional/future) in the song • Practice the conjugation of verbs and how pronouns agree with verbs • Identify nouns with masculine or feminine articles and how they agree, etc. • Say the action and state verbs and the phrases in which they are mentioned, etc.

  9. DISCUSSION: QUESTIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS

  10. CONCLUSION • Consider the positive effects of teaching through songs in a language class (the oral skills) • The fun and relax/energetic atmosphere songs can create in the class • The fun and easy activities that can motivate learners • The quick assimilation and long lasting acquisition of rules in a language • The improvement of students’ levels in the language • The high proficiency learners can get in the language

  11. Bibliography • Alain le Lait, “J’aime les fruits.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ03KjwiIVM • ---. “Alouette.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hFw_cWg9U • “Il etait un petitnavire.”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNiPMO5q_s • Keskin, Funda. “Using Songs as Audio Materials in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language.” TOJET 10:4 (2011): 378-383. Print. • “Marina – French Girl who doesn’t speak English sings Adele.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0CULiJY_h8 • Oroujlou, Nasser, & MajidVahedi. “Motivation, Attitude, and Language Learning.” Procedia –Social and Behavioral Sciences 29 (2011): 994-1000. Print. • “Phonics Songs.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0CULiJY_h8 • Saffran, Jenny R., Newport E. L., & Aslin R. N. “Word Segmentation: The Role of Distributional Cues.” Journal of Memory and Language 35 (1996): 606-621. Print. • Schon, Danielle et al. “Songs as an Aid for Language Acquisition.” Cognition 106 (2008): 975-983. Print. • Sardou, Michel. En chantant. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ5o8z2lkLc • “Use Songs Lyrics to Teach Figurative Language!.” http://www.traceeorman.com/2011/08/use-popular-music-to-teach-poetic.html • “Un canard a ditàsa cane.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vZ4STUdfjU

  12. Thank you very much!!! Patchani Patabadi Email contact: ppataba1@binghamton.edu

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