Keywords English songs in the role of college students in English learning
China Library ClassificationNo. G642 Document IdentificationNo. A1674-4810 (201) 24-0040-01.
English songs are an important part of English teaching and have educational functions that cannot be ignored. They not only provide teachers with a lot of language materials, but also help to stimulate students' interest in learning English and improve their language application ability. In college English class, teachers should give full play to the unique teaching function of English songs.
Overall coordination to improve students' learning ability
In English teaching, teaching students English songs properly is an effective way to effectively mobilize the right hemisphere, coordinate the two hemispheres and give full play to the brain to learn languages. In the process of learning to sing English songs, words, sentences, beautiful melodies, rich images and rich emotions are organically integrated. In the process of learning to sing, students will imperceptibly print words and sentences in their minds. As long as the beautiful melody rings again, the lyrics will blurt out unconsciously.
Second, subtly stimulate students' interest in learning.
In recent years, European and American songs are widely popular on campus, and students are familiar with them. If teachers can grasp students' interest hotspots and teach students to sing English songs in class, they can first enrich English teaching content and make English learning content more colorful. Secondly, the classroom atmosphere can be adjusted to make the classroom atmosphere relaxed and lively; Thirdly, we can unconsciously master English words and syntax in singing English songs and cultivate students' sense of English language.
The strong emotional color of college students is the characteristic of this age group. If English teaching is just boring and monotonous to instill words and grammar into students, it will make students feel boring. Over time, it will make students feel that learning English is a chore, thus killing their interest in learning English. If English songs with strong colors and warm atmosphere are added to the teaching content, students' interest in learning English will be aroused imperceptibly.
Three teachers and students interact and implement participatory teaching
In English teaching, the principle of "learning by doing" is used to implement teaching. In practice, by teaching students to sing English songs, classroom education and extracurricular activities are organically combined, so that students can act as "protagonists", provide them with a stage, satisfy their desire to express themselves, improve their interest in learning English in activities, master English vocabulary and sense of language, and make it possible for the application of songs to enrich teaching forms. Teachers' teaching with songs is beneficial to the improvement of teaching effect. In different teaching stages, songs will have different teaching effects. For example, in the warm-up session, warming up with songs can let students slowly enter the atmosphere of learning English with songs; In the process of presenting new lessons, interspersed songs can adjust the rhythm of classroom teaching, eliminate students' fatigue, stimulate students' interest in learning, and let students learn, apply and consolidate new knowledge in pleasant songs. Song teaching has created a lively, relaxed and happy learning environment for us, making books "live" and interesting, making students learn "live" and making the whole classroom colorful.
Fourth, independently study and understand the cultural background of European and American countries.
English learning can't just rely on the teacher to say some words and grammar in class, so that students can memorize them by rote and then copy them mechanically. On the contrary, students should master complete English skills and learning methods, and learn about the world by learning English. By teaching English songs in English learning, we can introduce the background knowledge of songs to students, and introduce foreign historical knowledge, customs and humanities knowledge, so as to achieve the purpose of "understanding the world". For example, when I teach the text about Christmas, I teach students to sing some Christmas songs, such as: We wish you a Merry Christmas, frosting snowman, jingling bells and so on. Before learning to sing, I first introduce some traditional festivals in the West to students, and then focus on the knowledge about Christmas, such as the origin of Christmas, Santa Claus, Christmas tree and how people celebrate Christmas. Introduce to students how the author gives people a happy Christmas eternal blessing with a kind heart in the case of poverty and disease. In this way, in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, students not only appreciate the art, but also increase their knowledge.
When teaching "American Country Music" and "Voice of the World", students know little about American music. So, I collected some European and American country songs, such as country roads. Say you, say me, just wait here. What will it be? By learning English songs, students have a preliminary understanding of American music and a further understanding of the text.
Consolidate and enrich, improve students' language ability.
Forgetting is the enemy of English learning, and students' memory is characterized by quick memorization and quick forgetting. How to overcome this problem? English song teaching is one of the effective methods. English song teaching caters to students' enthusiasm and love for singing, which can help teachers make the tedious review and consolidation work lively, let students sing while playing, and master the prescribed language materials unconsciously, thus achieving the purpose of consolidating knowledge.
Enhance language sense and improve students' listening and speaking ability.
Many beautiful English songs are not only lively in rhythm, but also concise in language, loud in rhyme and catchy, which can help students master the correct pronunciation and intonation and enhance their sense of language. At the same time, it can cultivate students' English listening and speaking ability. Therefore, in teaching, we can use more songs with obvious rhymes, so that students can feel the beauty of pronunciation in beautiful melodies and improve their listening and speaking ability.
To sum up, the purpose of English song teaching is to encourage students to "learn by singing". In the final analysis, it is to let students learn something and achieve something. Therefore, teachers should constantly explore and give full play to the role of songs in order to optimize English classroom teaching. English songs make teachers and students become one, which eliminates the gap between teachers and students caused by the age gap, enhances the feelings between teachers and students, improves the relationship between teachers and students, and greatly improves students' enthusiasm for learning English.
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[Editor: Chen Chen]