Music can be an extremely versatile tool for the foreign-language teacher. It has the potential to support and improve learning on a variety of levels: it can activate, motivate, or relax students; it can help memorization of vocabulary or language structures; it can bridge cultural gaps or contribute to the emergence of a learning community; it can have neurological benefits; it can be used as authentic learning material or in the form of a ritual; and so forth. Theoretical and empirical work has been carried out to support these claims—of which many must feel obvious to foreign-language teachers, since music and song are essential parts of human culture and play a significant role part in the language-learning of infants—but these works are scattered across a range of disciplines from anthropology to linguistics or neuroscience and, to the best of the knowledge of the author, cannot be found in collected form in any publication.
Contents
1. Introduction: why music?
2. Neurological benefits
3. Music in the lives of students
4. Emotions and the unifying effect of music
5. The benefits of music as authentic material
6. Perspectives, problems and concerns
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