Listen To English Music Can Help Improve English

Listening to English Music Can Help Improve English
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Listening to English Music Can Help Improve English
I. Introduction
A. As English learners all around the world look for faster ways to achieve fluency, listening to English music has been proven to be an effective way.
B. While the speed of learning English is determined by factors such as age, past learning experience, creativity, location and time spent learning, some ways have been proven to help improve one’s learning. The immersion method of learning involves surrounding one with the language they are learning.
C. This can be achieved by joining English speaking groups or listening to English media. The classroom method involves attending classes or structuring one’s learning program to resemble classroom learning. This paper seeks to discuss how listening to English music can help one improve their English.
II. Body
A. Listening to English music has been shown to be an excellent complementary technique in learning English (Paquette & Rieg, 2008). It has been shown to have a multitude of benefits to English learners. Other than increasing the learner’s vocabulary, listening to English music can also improve one’s pronunciation and listening skills. The music frequently sticks in the head. As one hums to a song over and over again, they get to know the song as well as the lyrics by heart. It is therefore a great way to memorize new words. The other advantage associated with this technique is that one can listen to music at any time of the day. One can also listen to as many songs as possible. Music is also portable and unlike movies, textbooks or conversation partners, one can listen to music anywhere. Songs are therapeutic. Therefore, one gets relief as they learn. Listening to a good song will almost always prompt one to sing along. This is another strength of the technique. When one imitates the sounds as they sing along, their tongues get more accustomed to the sounds and hence their pronunciation is improved.
​B. When one listens to an English song, they pick up new words that probably had not heard before. Moreover, they can notice words that are being in different contexts. For instance, listening to Friday, I’m in Love can help one learn the days of the week. The more songs that one listens to, the more vocabulary they learn and the more they enhance their listening skills. The lyrics of various songs contain figures of speech, metaphors, symbolism, and slang. Through these, one can learn a language that is not used in everyday situations.
III. Conclusion
A. 1. While some genres of music are more powerful learning tools as compared to others, any genre of music that has lyrics can be used to learn English. However, one must choose the right approach in order to optimize the power of this technique.
2. First, one must choose the kind of music that they enjoy. This way, they will seek to know the lyrics more and in the process improve their English. They will also effortlessly listen to songs repetitively.
3. One can easily find English songs that they like to fast-track their learning. For instance, using apps such as Pandora or Spotify, one can get the genre of music they like in English. Lyric videos can also be gotten from YouTube. Listening to a song while following the lyrics produces better results.
B. Listening to a whole song can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. It is therefore recommended that one breaks down the song into chunks. Since the chorus is repeated throughout the song, it is a good point to start. By using this approach, one can effectively learn the English language by listening to English music.