Abstract
A song is a work of poetry that is typically intended to be sung by human voice many studies have tackled the importance of implementing songs in teaching English as a second language (ESL) showing that they can be very effective in developing student’s grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary retention. This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of using songs on young student’s motivation in Jordan. The participants were two different groups from a private school in Jerash. Their motivation was examined with and without implementing music. Analysis of the data using a t– test suggested that using songs in teaching English for young learners was significantly effective in raising their motivation to learn the language. The study also concluded with some implications about the effective use of songs to enhance the effect of these results.
Highlights
English has become a very important language in the world since it considered to be the language of science, and people realize the importance of learning and teaching English for their kids as well as for themselves
To answer the first question which is: Does using songs have any effect on motivation of young English learners? The Independent-Sample t-test was used to examine the differences in the average between the experimental group and the control group towards the effect of the using songs on student’s motivation toward learning English
The value of the t-test (-1.65) is a statistically significant value (0.01), indicating differences between the two groups and for the benefit of the higher arithmetic mean which is the experimental group, which means that using music in teaching English for young learners had a positive effect on their motivation to learn the language which is the answer to the first question
Summary
English has become a very important language in the world since it considered to be the language of science, and people realize the importance of learning and teaching English for their kids as well as for themselves. In Jordan English enhances the role of education [5]. It has been introduced to students from kindergarten to university. Though the difference between public and private schools in presenting the language is different, but it still dominates teaching other courses such as science, math, technology and medicine. Because of this importance, children start learning English from kindergartens using different materials and games, and teachers try to imply strategies which make learning English interesting and enjoyable. Learning English starts from this early age to encourage student, to learn the language so that when they grow up, they will be confident to speak and to write
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