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Remember, songs are a good tool in the Foreing-language classroom because they are active, they have lots of vocabulary, they are adaptable to the specific needs, they transmit culture, they are short and condensed, they are social, they develop phonemic awareness, they are repetitive, they are up to date, and students like them. 

 

Instrumental music

If you are interested in know more about the use and effects of Instrumental Music in EFL classroms, here you have a list of related articles.

 

Bancroft, W. J. (1985). Music therapy and education. Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 10(1), 3-19.

 

Benenzon, R. O. (1997). Music therapy theory and manual: Contributions to the knowledge of nonverbal contexts. Charles C. Thomas.

 

Botha, H. L., & Puhl, C. A. (1988). A Comparison of Krashen’s L2 acquisition/learning theory and Lozanov’s suggestopedia. Institute for Language Teaching. (ERIC Document Reproduction No. ED 207 336)

 

Campbell, D. G. (1997). The Mozart effect: Tapping the power of music to heal the body, strengthen the mind, and unlock the creative spirit. New York: Avon Books.

 

Fernald, Anne .Meaningful melodies in mothers' speech. In Hanus Papoušek, Uwe Jürgens, & Mechthild Papoušek (Eds.), Nonverbal vocal communication: Comparative and developmental perspectives (pp. 262-282). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

 

Fernald, Anne. Approval and Disapproval: Infant Responsiveness to Vocal Affect in Familiar and Unfamiliar Languages. Child Development, 64 (1993): 657–674.

 

Fonseca, M.C. (2002). The role of Musicality of Language in the Acquisition process of English as a Second Language/ El Papel de la Musicalidad del Lenguaje en el Proceso de Adquisición del Inglés como L2. Ann Arbor: Universidad de Michigan.

 

Hall, J. C. (1952). The effect of background music on the reading comprehension of 278 eighth and ninth grade students. The Journal of Educational Research, 451-458.

 

Krashen, S. D. (1985). The input hypothesis: Issues and implications (Vol. 1, p. 985). London: Longman.

 

Lozanov, G. (1978). Suggestology and Suggestopedia: Theory and practice.

 

McDonald, D. (1978). Music and Reading Readiness. Language Arts, 52: 872-876.

 

Salcedo, C. S. (2002). The effects of songs in the foreign language classroom on text recall and involuntary mental rehearsal (Doctoral dissertation, Louisiana State University): 14-17.

 

Stansell, J. W. (2005). The use of music for learning languages: A review of the literature. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, M. Ed.: 16-17.

 

Thompson, B. M., Andrews, S. R. (2000). An historical commentary on the physiological effects of music: Tomatis, Mozart and neuropsychology. Integrative Physiological & Behavioral Science, 35(3) 174-188.

 

Waisburd, G., & Erdmenger, E. (2007). El poder de la música en el aprendizaje: cómo lograr un aprendizaje acelerado y creativo: educación, empresa y desarrollo humano: guía teórica y práctica. MAD.

 

 

Singing songs

If you are interested in know more about the use of Songs in EFL classroms, here you have a list of related articles.

 

 

Abbott, Marilyn. "Using Music to Promote L2 Learning among Adult Learners". TESOL Journal 11,1 (2002): 10-17.

 

Cullen, Brian. "Music and song in discussion." The Internet TESL Journal 4.10 (1998).

 

Cullen, Brian. (1999).  "Song Dictation." Internet TESL Journal 5.11.

 

Cunningham, Paul A. "Student created song exercises." The Internet TESL Journal 7.4 (2001).

 

Davanellos, Akis. "Songs." English Teaching Professional 13 (1999): 13-17.

 

Fonseca, M. C., and García, L.(2010) Aprender Español en USA: los Medios de Comunicación como Motivación Social."Comunicar 34: 145-153.

 

Fonseca, C., Toscano, C., & Wermke, K. (2011). Melodies that help: the relation between Language Aptitude and Musical Intelligence. International Journal of English Studies, 22(1), 101-118.

 

Friederici, Angela, & Hahne, Anja. Neurokognitive Aspekte der Sprachentwicklung. In H. Grimm, (Ed.), Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, Bd. C/III/3 (273-310), Hogrefe: Göttingen, 2000.

 

Gruel, A., Hillman, L., Panis, P. (2012). Using songs in the ESL Classroom. Mtodology report. TESL Methodology.

 

Marquart, C. (1992). Kodàly based choral development in a bilingual biculturalsetting. Unpublished Project Report, University of Saint Thomas, St. Paul,MN.

 

Murphey, T. (1987). English through singing, TPR, walking labs, and music matter. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (Westende, Belgium, April 12-14). (Eric Document Reproduction No. ED 287 292)

 

Murphey, T. (1989). The where, when, and who of pop song lyrics: The listener’s prerogative. Popular Music, 8, 58-70. Murphey, T. (1990). The song stuck in my head phenomenon: a melodic DIN in the LAD? System 18, 53-64.

 

Murphey, T. (1990) The song stuck in my head phenomenon: A melodic Din in the LAD? System, 18(1), 53-64.

 

Murphey, T. (1992). The discourse of pop songs. TESOL Quarterly,26, 770-774.

 

Murphey, Tim. "Gracias a la vida - musica que me ha dado tanto: songs as scaffolded-languaging for SLA." (In A. Hermont, R. Esprito Santo & S. Cavalcante (eds). Linguagem E Cognição. Belo Horizonte: Ed.PUC Minas (2010): 241-255.

 

Palmer, C., & Kelly, M. (1992). Linguistic prosody and musical meter in song. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 525-541.

 

Salcedo, C. S. (2002). The effects of songs in the foreign language classroom on text recall and involuntary mental rehearsal (Doctoral dissertation, Louisiana State University). 17-25.

 

Schoepp, Kevin. "Reasons for using songs in the ESL/EFL classroom." The internet TESL journal 7.2 (2001): 1-4.

 

Upendran, Subrahmanian. "Teaching phrasal verbs using songs." The Internet TESL Journal 7.7 (2001).

 

Whittaker, F. (1981). Singing in ESL with songs for the grammar class. Honolulu, HI: (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED207336)

 

Wray, A., & Perkins, M. R. (2000). The functions of formulaic language: An integrated model. Language & Communication, 20(1), 1-28.

 

 

Teaching and Learning Approaches

If you are interested in know more teaching and learning approaches for EFL classroms, here you have a list of related articles.

 

Leganés Lavall, E. N. (2012). La música en el aula de inglés: una propuesta práctica.

 

Salcedo, C. S. (2002). The effects of songs in the foreign language classroom on text recall and involuntary mental rehearsal (Doctoral dissertation, Louisiana State University): 17-25