The Useful of Music and Songs

Do What You Mastered

You will Succeed

Third meeting of English for Teacher presents Mr. Urip Hidayat S.Pd or Mr Urip as the speaker and Poppy Meka, M.Pd. as the moderator. The theme of the material is very interesting for the participants. It is about Learning English with Music and Songs.

Talking about music and songs make me in blue. I like music and songs but I can not sing 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭. I like the way Mr. Urip gave warming up before starting the material. He invited all the participants to sing together. Of course this activity was fun. It can be applied in the real class not only for English class but also for whole class. You can find songs related with the topic of the material and create several kinds of task from the songs or the music. By doing this your classroom atmosphere will be more lifely and the lesson is meaningful.

Mr. Urip also told about his experiences when learning English at the first time. He tried to motivate and burn participants interest by telling how he learnt English in the past. His story was a process and stage to catch his dream. Now, you can see how great his English is!

Music and songs is a strategy which can be applied by the teacher in teaching learning process Generally.  English is one lesson can be taught through music and songs. Why music? The reason is music and songs  can influence students' soul and enthusiastic. 

Murphey in Neil says that songs are be able help young students to improve their English skills especially listening and pronunciation and potentially it can improve their speaking. Not only that, songs are also can be useful in teaching vocabularies, sentence structures, and sentence patterns without mention their reflectivity of mother tongue. The main goal of teaching English is communication, through songs teacher is be able to create good condition in persuading students to speak up.

Then Larry M. Lynch says there are nine reasons why teach English Foreign Language use songs, they are 1) Songs almost always contain authentic, natural language. 2) A variety of new vocabulary can be introduced to students through songs. 3) Songs are usually very easily obtainable. 4) Songs can be selected to suit the needs and interests of the students. 5) Grammar and cultural aspects can be introduced through songs. 6) Time length is easily controlled. 7) Students can experience a wide range of accents. 8) Song lyrics can be used in relating to situations of the world around us. 9) Students think songs are natural and fun.

It is clearly that there many advantages of using music and songs in teaching English the classroom.

In his presentation, Mr Urip also showed some tasks. The tasks were created from choice songs. Of course the teacher should be selected songs which relates with the topic or theme so the goals of aims of the lesson gained.

Thank you for interesting material, Mr. Urip. By applying music and songs in the classroom, teaching learning process will be fun and enjoyable. 

Resume: 3rd

Speaker: Mr. Urip Hidayat, S Pd.

Moderator: Ms. Poppy Meka, M.Pd.

Topic: Learning English with Music and Songs.

Day/Date: Tuesday/ December 7th 2021