What is this?
Lyrics training is a nice website that uses up-to-date songs to assisst language learners.A learner can listen to a song that he chooses and writes missing words at the same time. It does not only helps learners to learn English, but it can also be used in learning other languages such as Spanish and French.
Why is the content good for language learning?
- It is a very enjoyable tool for learning a language
- Teachers can make use of it in their classes and they can encourage their students to use it at home
- It serves to foster most of language skills. It can improve learners' listening and writing skills and it helps them to acquire new words with their pronunciations.
- It represents an authentic material.
- Impleming this material in classes increases learners' motivation which can encourage them to learn more. Since it can be used at home learners can be autonoumus and responsible for their learning.
How might you use it in a language teaching context?
At the beginning of the lesson the teacher can explain to the students how this website works. If the the number of students is small, he can divide the class into pairs. After that each pair can listen to a song that they chose, discuss together what the missing words are and then write them. However, if there are a big number of students, the teacher can use just one computer or a white board and play a song and then discuss with the whole class what the missing words are. He also can print out the lyrics, copy it, give the copies to the students, play the song and then ask the students to listen and fill in the gaps.
What are the limitations?
- I t requires access to the internet
- It does not work in some countries
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