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Using Music To Teach English As A Second Language: A Guide To The Use Of Song Lyrics, Peter M. Carney
Using Music To Teach English As A Second Language: A Guide To The Use Of Song Lyrics, Peter M. Carney
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This project consists of two parts: the first is a "guide", which lists seven distinct subject areas that can be taught or reinforced through the use of song lyrics. These seven areas are: Grammar/Structure; Conversation; Vocabulary; Idioms, Colloquial Expressions, and Two-word verbs; Figures of Speech ( Metaphors, Similes, Personification, Allusion ); Writing; and Aural/Oral skills. The reason I refer to this as a "guide" is because it presents samples of different types of songs within each category, and suggests ways to use them.
The second part consists of thirty songs, each one of which refers back to at least one …