The Use of Songs to Improve the Communicative Skills

Abstract

The education of languages in our country has become a challenge both for teachers and learners, either by its difficulty or by the increasing lack of interest among students. Nonetheless, this perspective does not seem surprising if we observe the development of an English class in which students remain in silence conducting different tasks of the grammar book while the teacher explains in his mother tongue. The learning of a foreign language should be the contrary, being the students who speak, participate and play with English, laying aside fear and shame. For this reason, the present paper has the goal of encouraging students to become the protagonist of their own learning process and to participate using the foreign language, through an innovative tool that will attract them to engage in this process and that will rekindle their interest: the music.