It takes time and sustained effort to learn a language. Students need to find enjoyment to sustain their learning – and that’s how songs can make a difference.
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We can waste an awful lot of time on social media because of the engaging, even addictive, nature of platforms like Tiktok. But teachers are now exploiting these qualities for learning languages.
Over the years, our understanding of how language and learning are linked has shifted and changed. There is ample evidence about the value of mother-tongue-based multilingual education.
From Jabberwocky to the BFG’s gobblefunking, playing with words is the first step to mastering them – not something to be ironed out of teaching.
There are many layers of complexity at play in the way that South African schools use and teach languages.
In Uganda, private schools are simply ignoring a policy that calls for pupils to learn in a mother tongue rather than in English for the first three years of their education.
Pre-service teachers are learning a great deal about their own skills and the challenges of the job through a part of their curriculum that approaches training differently.
English songs from the US and the UK are typically taught to kids around the world. With English now a language of many cultures, why not incorporate songs from the world?
Top contributors
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Associate professor, George Mason University
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Associate Dean (Research) & Associate Professor of Education (Personal Development, Health & Physical Education), Charles Sturt University
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Senior lecturer Dept of English, service-learning, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Mathematics Education Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Lecturer, Department of African Languages, Makerere University
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Lecturer in African Languages, Makerere University
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Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of South Australia
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Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
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Professor of Curriculum Studies, Stellenbosch University
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Head Tutor in Political Science; Tutor in Italian studies and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Creative Arts and Technology, Charles Sturt University
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English Language Instructor, University of Cyprus, and PhD Graduate, Charles Sturt University
