LOURDES GRIJALVA'S ENGLISH BLOG

  😎This part of the blog focuses on how the use of music can be particularly meaningful in an EFL classroom. This practice helps to identify/observe language elements in context, but also improves your ability to retain information and music has the ability to bridge cultures and languages. 👌 For example:  🅱efore you play any music: It is prudent to find out students’ choice of music. Songs with repetitive verses are better because can be used with ease and students can understand. For advanced-level users of the language, songs with complex language structures and concepts too  🆆arm up: Music can be used as a good introduction to a lesson, just to warm them up for a lesson. For example, Michael Jackson's 'Earth Song' can be used to talk about environmental concerns. A song with an easy-to-repeat chorus. 🅶rammar : Music is particularly useful for teaching grammatical structures, our brains are wired to process information. After working with the lyrics of a song, ...

I want to continue with this topic that is interesting to me, and I hope it is for you too 😊About influence the music at the moment to learn a new language.  🧠 LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN 🧠 Speaking several languages may help learners to better understand music and vice versa. Speaking multiple languages can help students better understand music. When the student listens to music it can be much easier to process it. In the same way, it happens with languages, the learning of languages can be produced more quickly.  On the other hand, at the moment that listening to a song its important to put on emphasis on the words in a song and new the vocabulary also with music in language learning can be simple chants for example when children in kindergarten could be listening to  "THE ALPHABET SONG" This song is more easily to learn for them because the m elody is simple and when children before seven years old avoid developing higher grammar ability and higher verbal coeff...

Hello everyone 😊 In this first part, I am going to begin to share two of my passions, English and Music . The advantages of playing an instrument and singing for learning foreign languages, such as English. Music over time has played an important role in society more than anything else in learning and culture. Playing musical instruments and even singing has mainly helped children develop skills such as language, memory, and attention . On the other hand, science assures that when playing a musical instrument, the activity between both brain hemispheres is enhanced, increasing the processing speed that contributes to the elaboration of information and also to the learning of foreign languages. For example, when playing the piano, both hands and feet are used simultaneously, which requires a lot of concentration, it is important to practice constantly from a very young age. It has been shown that music education improves in some way the process of spoken language. Scientific research s...