(1) Cultivation of Language Sense
Listening to English songs often can cultivate students' sense of language. In any language, the sense of language is one of the most important parts: for example, when we see or hear a Chinese sentence, the first thing we think of is not its structural sentence pattern or sentence components, but whether the sentence is readable-we can deal with almost all types of Chinese sentences in this way. In fact, whether it is daily communication or exams, we all do this.
In fact, English is the same. Grammar has been introduced into English textbooks in China for a long time. This is certainly helpful for learning English. Can let us understand the sentence structure more clearly and understand the sentence better. However, its shortcomings are also obvious-premature exposure to a lot of grammar knowledge makes students shift the focus of learning English to grammar knowledge rather than English itself: when students find that they can get good grades in exams as long as they learn grammar knowledge well, they no longer pay attention to the cultivation of English ability, especially the cultivation of English language sense. Taking exams for the sake of exams makes many exams meaningless.
In fact, even if you use it in an exam, the advantage of language sense is very obvious-you don't have to spend time analyzing the structure and sentence patterns of those sentences, and you can write many questions quickly and accurately only by your proficiency in the language.
In daily communication, a sense of language can greatly improve the speed and quality of communication. Then, often being exposed to the English environment created by English songs can make the brain receive the training of language sense imperceptibly-language sense is also a person's proficiency in language mastery. In English songs, listening to those beautiful English over and over again makes people master many language expressions in a very relaxed environment.
(2) help pronunciation
Lyrics are the language of poetry, with concise voice, bright rhythm and strong power. Learning lyrics is the most effective pronunciation exercise. When singing English songs, we should pay attention to articulation, enunciate clearly, and sing with words, so we need to save phonetic knowledge such as pronunciation and continuity. This requires singers to pay special attention to pronunciation and tone. For example, the children's song "Burning in London" has only four sentences: Burning in London, Burning in London. Get the engine. Engine. Fuoco! Fuoco! Fuoco! Fuoco! Pour water, pour water. This song is about 1666 London fire. Liao Liao described the scene of people fighting fire in a few sentences, which were fluent and easy to read. By learning this kind of lyrics, many phonetic difficulties such as stress, stress, linking and rhythm have been trained, and the pronunciation and intonation will be greatly improved.
The rhythm of songs requires high pronunciation, and the frequent occurrence of conjunctions, skimming and rereading of lyrics will be of great help to English learners.
At the same time, the lyrics of this song are also very meaningful, like a lyric poem.
The following is an analysis of some oral points in this song-they are also indispensable elements in Authentic English:
THE two "the" in the sentence "not a big thing, but a small thing" are weak readings.
"And I have been grateful for many years", in which "I have" is continuous reading.
Weak reading "You have" in wanna (mentioned above) and "I want to thank you for everything".
"How can I walk without your hands" in Without You
"Hand" means continuous reading.
Because mom, you have always been, mom and you, you have always been. They are all continuous reading.
These small language skills are easily overlooked by English learners. In fact, their stress, weak reading, linking and skimming are all manifestations of their real English ability. This song alone can be so helpful to pronunciation. It seems that such a song is really a great blessing. Unfortunately, many people don't realize this.
(3) Learn vocabulary by singing.
If words are the basis of English, then sentences composed of words are essential language elements in daily communication, writing and application. There are many words in a sentence, and some concrete sentences with enough words will make people have good associations and good memories. When people concentrate on memorizing sentences, they will find that the words in the sentences are written down naturally, and there is no writing obstacle. More importantly, we have memorized the words in specific sentences, so that many China students will not have enviable vocabulary, but they can only skillfully use a few of them. For most students, they just "know the meaning" and can't use it at all. Can we say that we have mastered such vocabulary?
Learning to sing is a good way to deepen your memory. English songs are concise and meaningful, with many popular "fashionable words" and authentic expressions, which can also expand vocabulary. If there is such a lyric in the song "Sweet Day" that won the Grammy Award of 1996, "I know that we will be together better in the end"1/",you will gradually understand that it is an adverb form of events in the end. As long as you remember the lyrics, you may never forget the word.
(4) Learn sentence patterns and grammar by singing.
Learning to sing can also help you learn many sentence patterns. And the list goes on. For example, there is a sentence in the lyrics of I will: I will, like the shadow around you. Another example: you give me wings. Let me fly. You can touch my head, reach for the sky. And there is a sentence pattern: there is a place in your heart. ..
What about grammar? English songs contain various grammatical phenomena. When students learn to sing English, they don't think they are learning grammar at all. It will be very impressive to reproduce boring and difficult-to-remember grammar in an artistic form. Once you are not sure, just sing it once. The future continuous tense is a difficult grammar to master; But there is a saying in Richard Marx's "Wait Here" that "I will wait for you there". Isn't this a good example? As long as you extrapolate, the future continuous tense will be integrated!
(5) Singing culture
Some songs have certain background of the times. Learning to sing these songs can not only learn the language, but also learn some historical and cultural knowledge and social background knowledge. For example, while learning to sing Joe Hill's songs, I dreamed that I saw Joe Hill last night, it was you and me ... These songs are full of nostalgia for Joe Hill. Through this kind of songs, we can know that JoeHill organized workers to go on strike, sang in prison and died heroically. Our admiration for JoeHill arises spontaneously.
Having said that, I just want to tell you that listening to and singing English songs is helpful for learning English. Only by singing repeatedly can you remember the lyrics you hear. Listening to English songs can not only help you learn English, but also help you adjust your nervousness, cultivate your sense of music and cultivate your sentiment. Believe me, I won't say anything, and everyone understands!
English learners can learn authentic English in a short time. Because of the differences in thinking and language habits between China and foreigners, many English learners often learn Chinglish. Pop music is an effective way for English learners to understand the thinking and language habits of westerners.
This diametrically opposite English thinking makes it difficult for China people to express English fluently and truly. At the same time, the expressions and sentences we learn in school and peacetime are very limited, far less than the frequency we use or hear in our mother tongue, while English music can make us wander in an "English world".
A large number of excellent sentences and phrases, a large number of British and American cultures, and a large number of foreign popular trends-these are all good means for us to conquer the "bunker" of English, and the only auxiliary learning methods that can achieve this effect in unit time seem to be music and movies. Although movies are of great help to English learners, they are a good choice for students who don't have much time to enjoy movies.
(C) the combination of learning and entertainment
Learning to sing English songs is a beneficial learning aid for us English learners in many ways. It can combine English learning with entertainment. It can not only cultivate our aesthetic interest in music appreciation, improve our appreciation taste, but also stimulate English learners' interest in learning, and also ease the tense atmosphere in the learning process, so that your learning can be completed in a proactive, relaxed and happy process. Music is the precious spiritual wealth of mankind. People like the beautiful melody of music and appreciate its diversity.
"English is an art", although it is quite different from the view that English is an essential tool in the present society, it is my real idea-in fact, every language is a unique art, which has developed into a representative of a national spiritual culture after thousands of years of historical precipitation and changes. There are various word-formation methods, rhymes and ancient poems in Chinese. French has its unique and beautiful style of writing, and it is also the most rigorous language in the world, which often appears in high-level business negotiations and signing peace treaties; And English itself, the title of "the world's first universal language", is enough to explain many things, not only because of the strong national strength of the countries that use it, but also because of the charm of English itself. When I read some famous books, I will be surprised by their vivid writing. When I recite some historic speeches, I will read them enthusiastically, as if I were a great man who was giving a speech at that time-English is easy to express my feelings, even.
Of course, when enjoying music at ordinary times, English songs are more for us to temporarily relax from the heavy and tense subject study, immerse ourselves in the music and listen to the harmonious lyrics-at such a beautiful moment, we have also unconsciously improved our English level.
Therefore, listening to music is not only helpful for learning, but also helpful for improving the essence of one's mind and thoughts.