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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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Campisi, Salvatore – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The song 'La ballata dell'amore cieco (o della vanità)' (1966), by Italian singer-songwriter Fabrizio De André (1940-1999), offers students opportunities to practise their language skills, stimulate their cultural appreciation, and expand their knowledge of a musical and poetic form (the ballad), while reflecting on the close connection between…
Descriptors: Singing, Case Studies, Italian, Second Language Learning
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Frimberger, Katja – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2016
The following article explores the conceptual background and pedagogical realities of establishing a well-being focussed language pedagogy in the context of an informal educational event called "Language Fest". The event was organised as part of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded large grant project "Researching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Informal Education, English Language Learners, Adolescents
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Koole, Marguerite; Lewis, Kevin wâsakâyâsiw – International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning, 2018
In this article, the authors explore how mobile learning can complement the Certificate of Indigenous Languages program at the University of Saskatchewan in Western Canada. Through the FRAME model analysis, the authors extract salient cultural, pedagogical, environmental, and technological characteristics that should be considered in the…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
Broer, Kathleen – Online Submission, 2013
This article examines the role that cultural awareness and pronunciation play in the Choral rehearsal to improve L2 Literacy Rates. A bibliography is included. Appendixes present: (1) Multicultural Song Literature Used in the Classroom; (2) Repertoire for Me to We; (3) Drumming Unit; and (4) Sample Repertoire List. [This paper was originally…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, Cultural Awareness, Pronunciation
Broer, Kathleen – Online Submission, 2013
I taught music in three schools where 10-40% of the student population spoke another language at home. I ran an all-select choir for Kindergarten, Primary, Junior and Intermediate students once per week. I was interested in answering the following questions: What impact might weekly rehearsals of an all-select choir have on language learning? How…
Descriptors: Music, Second Language Learning, Singing, Literacy Education
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Engh, Dwayne – English Language Teaching, 2013
The use of music and song in the English language-learning classroom is not new. While many teachers intuitively feel that music is beneficial in teaching English language, there is sometimes a lack of the theoretical underpinnings that support such a choice. There are examples in the literature to argue the strong relationship between music and…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Music Activities, Literature Reviews, Classroom Techniques
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Kahnke, Corinna; Stehle, Maria – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2011
In North American universities, pop culture increasingly appears in the German Studies classroom to "spice up" the curriculum. But what is conveyed and taught and how is it inserted into the curriculum and into the US cultural context? This article explores three examples of popular culture in the German Studies classroom:…
Descriptors: Universities, Popular Culture, Foreign Countries, Cultural Context
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Li, Xiangming; Brand, Manny – Contributions to Music Education, 2009
Using an experimental approach, this study examined the relative effectiveness of varying the use of songs (lyrics and music) on vocabulary acquisition, language usage, and meaning for adult ESL students in the People's Republic of China. While the use of songs is generally enthusiastically endorsed by ESL teachers, few empirical studies have…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Music, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Ajibade, Yetunde; Ndububa, Kate – TESL Canada Journal, 2008
This study investigated the extent to which word games and culturally relevant songs and stories could motivate senior secondary school students in Nigeria, thereby enhancing their performance in English. A pre-test/post-test control group design was used. The sample consisted of 100 senior secondary school II students randomly assigned into…
Descriptors: Matched Groups, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries
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Weinberg, Alysse – CALICO Journal, 2007
In previous publications the author reported on the use of a website dedicated to French songs for an advanced French comprehension course at the university level. The present article analyzes web-tracking data captured from the website over two terms--fall 2003 and winter 2004. The variations in the amount of time students spent working on the…
Descriptors: Internet, French, Gender Differences, Web Sites
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Trollinger, Valerie L. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2004
This study is an investigation of the degree to which preschool children enrolled in Cantonese-immersion preschools in three areas of the United States differed from their monolingual counterparts in pitch-matching accuracy. In a 2003 study, the author found that in monolingual American English-speaking children, pitch-matching accuracy was most…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
Berney, Tomi D.; Adelman, Deborah – 1990
The Learning English as a Second Language (ESL) with Los Cumbancheros project was developed through the collaborative efforts of several New York State Government offices, community school districts in the Bronx, and the private corporate sector. Its objective was to provide supplemental services to at-risk students of limited English proficiency…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs