The Use of Music in Second Language Acquisition

In my podcast, I talked about the effects of music in the First Language Acquisition process and in this video I am talking about the effects of music in the Second Language Acquisition process.

Firstly, music lowers affective barriers and assists in making students more relaxed, thereby more receptive to language learning.

Secondly, the use of song and linguistic play in the language classroom to increase individual language-learner motivation.

Also, when music is situated as an aid to learning strategies in the language classroom, both cognitive and metacognitive strategies are enhanced, affective exploration is increased and the student is more receptive to language inputs.

As a last but not least statement, use of music is good for memorization and learning the pronunciation points.

It is clear that use of music is necessary for acquiring a second language.

Credit: Engh, D. (2013). Why Use Music in English Language Learning? A Survey of the Literature. English Language Teaching, 6(2), 113-127