The use of songs to improve listening skills for students at ITC Foreign Language Centre in Hai Duong

Tóm tắt The use of songs to improve listening skills for students at ITC Foreign Language Centre in Hai Duong: ...t recognize its importance in developing language skills. Rost (1994) emphasizes the importance of listening for several reasons below:  Listening is vital in the language classroom because it provides input for the learner. Without understandable input at the right level, any learning simp...accompanies with us very time we feel happy or sad. Music is at everywhere, every time we need it: “when we exercise, when we work, when we play, when we worship and even when we die, music is there to reinforce or alter every mood and emotion” (Lynch, 2005). Studies have shown that music can ...mprove their teaching of listening, motivate students and help them over come those difficulties. However, not all of the teachers choose the same techniques to teach listening. Some chose to use giving background information and new words, while others chose authentic materials or some extr...