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How does music help elementary ESL students improve their language proficiency?
How do topics in the songs motivate their learning?
How does the frequency of listening to a CD help improve vocabulary?
Research Questions Data Source 1 Data Source 2 Data Source 3• Do students
like to listen to music?
Student’s survey Class observation notes
Informal interview with a teacher.
• Time spent listening to the CD at home.
Student’s survey Parent’s survey Pre-test/ post-test
• Do topics in the songs motivate their learning?
Use of Likert scales to rate the topics of the units in the book and songs.
Student’s reflective comments on the plot of the story and songs. (Journal)
Anecdotal records
Research Question: How do songs (music) help elementary ESL students improve their language proficiency?
Identifying themes: Look for patterns that emerge from data collected and their relation to literature.
Reflective memo: Document written during the pretest and the postest.
Bar graphs: from surveys
1. Students need to know that listening to songs help them improve their proficiency.
2. The more times a song is played, the easier for students to recall it.
3. Songs by themselves do not provide the visual component to help students improve written proficiency.
Teachers should 1. Teach language learning strategies
inductively.2. Maximize the use of songs in
classrooms activitites.3. Use the lyrics of the songs to teach
spelling of new vocabulary.
Similarities
Music enhances learning because it lowers the ‘affective filter’ (Krashen)
Blodgett (2003) and Smith (2007) found enhanced vocabulary learning with music.
Differences
Songs by themselves
do not provide the
visual component
to help students improve written
proficiency.Number of vocabulary words learned increased the more songs were repeatedly played.
Students found that
music helped them relax
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