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Ratteera Ruksil; Somkiet Poopatwiboon; Pilanut Phusawisot – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
Pronunciation is a crucial component of language acquisition, vital for achieving clarity and fluency in communication. This study, utilizing cycles of action research, aimed to evaluate the impact of songs on the pronunciation skills of Thai EFL learners. Additionally, this study explored the participants' perceptions of using songs in their…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Wimonsinee Yuanjai; Chanika Gampper – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to evaluate the extent to which Taylor Swift's song lyrics incorporate vocabulary from the Oxford 3000 and 5000 word lists and to categorize these words based on CEFR levels. The goal is to narrow down the vast selection of songs available to EFL learners, focusing on the most essential vocabulary to enhance their learning…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Musicians, English (Second Language)
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Sandy I-Ching Wang; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined the effectiveness of teaching phoneme categorization and segmentation to EFL underachievers using songs and rhymes as instructional materials. Two distinct groups of 11th-grade EFL underachievers from Taiwan participated in this quasi-experimental study. The instructional materials consisted of lyrics sourced from online…
Descriptors: Singing, Phonemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Büsra Aras; Sultan Bozkurt; Serap Önen – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This research aimed to scrutinize and delineate the figures of speech manifesting in English hit songs. A selection of songs from Spotify's Top 30 Hit Songs List was chosen as the study material. The study employed a qualitative content analysis approach to classify the type and calculate the frequency of the figures of speech within the corpus of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rizka Razimona; Sary Silvhiany; Machdalena Vianty – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2024
Teaching English to first-grade elementary school children presents its own challenges for teachers. This is because children at this age have characteristics such as having a short attention span, enjoying playing, and learning more effectively when they are having fun. On the other hand, children in this group are still learning to read and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Singing
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Abdullah Albalawi – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This review paper explores the role of individual differences in second language vocabulary learning, focusing on three key factors: out-of-class exposure (e.g., viewing TV, playing video games and listening to songs), strategic vocabulary learning, and motivation. Individual differences significantly impact vocabulary learning, making it crucial…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Metacognition, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input
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Angela Lee-Smith – NECTFL Review, 2024
This article explores how music and lyrics serve as modes of storytelling in the language classroom, integrating a multimodal approach and the World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages. In the 'Sing My Story' project, language students creatively write their own lyrics, which are subsequently performed by either student musicians or target…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, Story Telling, Teaching Methods
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Marisa Bittar; Amarilio Ferreira Jr. – History of Education, 2024
The Portuguese policies of colonisation and Christianisation were closely linked. In 1549, the Portuguese monarchy adopted Catholicism as the official religion of the colonial administration and requested that the Society of Jesus establish the Catholic faith among the indigenous people in Brazil. The Jesuits established catechesis, founded the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Colonialism, Educational History, Christianity
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Harald Spann – English Teaching Forum, 2024
Advocates of using songs and music in English as a second language (EL2) teaching and learning contexts emphasize the educational benefits of song lyrics. To make the full potential of using songs more visible and accessible to EL2 teachers, this article presents a methodological framework that can be used when planning a song unit for learners.…
Descriptors: Singing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ranyme Ghidhaoui – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2025
Despite the established value of music for language learning, in that, the bulk of empirical studies that corroborate its usefulness, teachers still eschew its incorporation in the classroom as song materials remain underutilized. The ideological basis of this discrepancy is poorly understood as little is known about English language teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Singing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Gökçe Nur Türkmen; Kürsat Cesur – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
Integrating internationalized songs into English language teaching has emerged as a dynamic strategy to ignite students' interest and enhance their language proficiency. This article comprehensively explores internationalized songs' significance in language education. A central focus lies on a detailed case study that demonstrates how the…
Descriptors: Singing, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Korakoch Attaviriyanupap – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
Cultural awareness is essential in foreign language education. This paper explores two projects that exemplify the integration of cultural elements into foreign language learning involving both first language (L1) and second language (L2) cultures. The first project was initiated in the course "German Cinema". It focuses on the legendary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, German, Pronunciation
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M. Sidury Christiansen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This article investigates the language practices of a bilingual mariachi instructor teaching mariachi music to Latinx English dominant students. This ethnographic study draws on the concept of chronotope (Bakhtin 1981) to explore the spatiotemporal aspects of learning, particularly in terms of the teachers' selective use of language correction…
Descriptors: Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Han Luo; Pan Gao – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study reports on the results of a semester-long Chinese-American telecollaborative exchange via WeChat, in which students from China and the U.S. shared thematically similar songs in their respective languages and discussed relevant cultural topics that were suggested by the students. Various types of qualitative data collected from the…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication, Computer Software, Group Discussion
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Aitziber Elejalde – Journal of English Teaching, 2024
This paper is focused on the development of a didactic proposal for English students in the Basque Country. Specifically for students in the 1st year of "Bachillerato" with Spanish and Basque as their L1 and English as their L2 which aims to improve their communication skills, especially oral abilities and pronunciation, through the use…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Captions, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)