Indonesian Song’s Melody in Teaching English for Young Learners  

Oleh:

Pardede, Jannes Freddy

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The 62st TEFLIN International Conference: Teaching and Assessing L2 Learners in the 21st Century, Denpasar, 14-16th September 2015, Book 1, page 882-886.
Topik: melody; songs; young learners
Fulltext: hal 882.pdf (16.58MB)

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Many of Indonesian young learners are quite easy to feel bored in larning English for many reasons. One of the classical problem is an inappropriate method of teaching. Generally speaking, children usually like playing, and having fun even in learning. They are usually so dynamic and easily move their concentration from one to another. Therefore, English educators should be more creative in creating and applying various kinds songs especially pop song in learning English. It is important because of music and rhythm as powerful aids to language learning, memory, and recall. However, learning foreign languages is not easy, as many variables need to be considered.Perhaps, one of the main problems in learning a foreign language in this context is the lack of continuous target language auditory input. Language acquisition strongly depends on interaction. In this paper, the writer would like to discuss the benefits of song to language learning, Indonesian song melody in teaching English for young leraners, pop song is one alternative genre of songs for young language learners. Based on the writer’s experience, applying song melody in teaching English songs for Indonesian young learners is an effective method in attracting learner’s concentration in learning English. Through this way, Indonesian young learners can 1) be more fluent in speaking English, 2) be more active and enjoyful in learning a great number of English vocabulary 3) learn grammatical forms, spelling, pronunciation and connected sounds unconsciously.

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