Group 4 (essay writing)
Jusman A. Sahmal
Yuli la Amulara
Tri Intan Saputri
Rofika B. Sangaji
Assignment 1:
Topic: “Learning English Through Songs”
Assignment 2:
Mind mapping:
Assignment 3:
Introduction:
Learning English in an activity that most people use to do, as we know that English is an International language which can be spoken in every countries. The most important thing in learning English is to get as many vocabularies as you can to help you speak and understand what people speak about. To get a lot of vocabularies is not easy; you have to work hard to memorize it every day in any situation. However if you keep doing that one it will be boring, so you’re sued to find the most comfortable way to get more vocabularies.
Songs are a great source of ‘real-life’ language and you can use music to practice lots of different language skills. Most of all, songs are a fun way to learn English, especially in collecting a lot of vocabularies. You can use English song to get as many vocabularies as we can only by listening to it and try to jot down the lyrics after that you can memorize that song while memorizing it you don’t realize that you’re memorizing vocabulary also.
BODY:
There are some benefits of learning English through songs, we can start with a simple question “why do we have to use songs as the media of learning English?” it is all because of songs are the easiest way to learn English, beside that there are other benefits of learning English through song, such as:
1. Listening to music helps to improve your pronunciation.
Pronunciation is one of the most difficult aspects to master when it comes to learning a new language. Learning English through songs will definitely help to train your accent. When you learn your English songs, you will tend to repeat the songs again and again. And hence you will enjoy practicing English instinctively.
2. Songs are valuable sources for vocabulary, sentence structures and grammar.
Songs can provide the opportunity for vocabulary practice. They are usually based on a theme or topic that can offer the context for vocabulary learning. The more you listen to the lyrics, the better your English vocabulary becomes. At first, you may not completely understand the lyrics. But comprehension improves over time as you sing and discuss the music with your classmates, family, and friends. Furthermore, many English songs have a simple sentence structure and conversational language that we can easily understand. And therefore, we can learn them by heart quickly.
3. Songs are enjoyable.
Immerse yourself in English songs now! We can surely become bored out of our mind by repeatedly listening to a narration or dialogue as we attempt to understand the meaning of a new word or phrase in context. That’s why we need music to boost our motivation in learning English. Fundamentally, popular songs touch the lives of us and are connected with our various interest and everyday experiences. Music, therefore, has become an important part of our daily life. We listen to music to reduce anxiety, to stay positive, to relax. The rhythm and melody of songs enable us to listen to them over and over again. And English songs are useful for us to acquire English.
4. Music increases memory.
There’s no doubt that listening to your favorite music can instantly put you in a good mood. But scientists are now discovering that music can do more for you than just lift your spirits. Research has shown that listening to music is one of the best ways to stimulate both sides of our brain. It has a positive impact on not only learning English but also general learning. When we listen to music on a regular basis, we are at the same time improving our memory. And,
5. It is also the way to practice a musical instrument"
If you can play a musical instrument, it will be better. You can sing English songs that you like accompanied by a musical instrument that you are good at. As an alternative, you can collaborate with friends who can play an instrument and sing together so that learning activities become more fun and exciting."
After knowing the benefits of learning English through songs, now we also have to know to do. There are seven tips how to learn English through songs and to be success on it, you can start with:
1. Choose your songs wisely.
This might seem obvious but many learners fail at this simple step. Why? They either listen to random songs on the radio or pick whatever hot songs are currently trending on Spotify or YouTube. As simple as these sounds, to effectively learn English through songs, you must choose songs that you like songs that you'll live with and listen to a hundred times! That way, you will want to listen to them and want to learn the words in your target language.
2. Stick to an effective genre.
It is proven that genres like hip-hop have a much higher impact on language learning than pop, for example, as hip-hop songs generally have a rich vocabulary, complex rhyming schemes, and often use slang that is good for everyday communication.
3. Look up lyrics.
If you come across words that are unfamiliar to you or you cannot guess the meaning of certain phrases from context, simply look up the song's lyrics. Sites like Genius do an awesome job at providing correct lyrics to most songs out there, which include annotations and explanations written by the artists themselves. How cool is that?!
4. Make vocabulary searches a habit.
While you're in the process of looking up lyrics, why not make it a habit? If finding the correct lyrics is not enough for you to understand a song, you can always use a dictionary and learn a new word or two. It never hurts to build a habit that not only helps you learn songs that you like but to improve your English fluency, as well.
5. Find the right music resources.
Apart from the obvious choices in YouTube, Pandora, and Spotify, there are plenty of online resources that help you listen to music while learning English. You can have fun while improving your reading, listening, and pronunciation skills all at the same time. Some resources worth checking out are Language Zen, Lyrics Gaps, and Lyrics Training.
6. Talk about music.
Talking about music with friends and family is a cool method of improving both your conversation skills and vocabulary. The thing is: when talking about songs, in general, you will inevitably use some musical slang that is uncommon in everyday speech. You will have to learn English words and phrases like: tune (song), catchy (easy to remember), one-hit wonder (an artist with only one successful song), and more. On the bright side, you can never know too many words, right? And the last,
7. Listen and learn on the go.
The most effective thing you can do is to always remember and be aware that while you are enjoying your favorite music, you are also in the middle of a language exercise. You are learning. This awareness will help you go a long way! In other words, if you're not even focused on learning, how can you expect learning to happen? You must raise your own awareness of today's tips and tricks before you can expect real results and improvements in your English fluency.
CONCLUSION:
So, learning English through songs can help students to improve their English skills and English proficiency. Songs become one of the media that many devotees because songs, especially English songs, mostly carry instruments that are not mellow, are more adaptive, or are easy to keep up with the times, the instruments are very cool, like growing our imagination as if the tips are abroad, cultural acculturation, the soul of the music itself interact more to our lives, and the most important thing is to learn English as well. That’s why, do not be surprised if it turns out learning English through songs is very effective. Moreover there is plenty of scientific evidence that shows how music can help second language learners get grammar and vocabulary and improve spelling. You can also listen to songs anywhere and anytime. Then now we have to realize that learning English through songs is very effective and successful.
REFERENCES:
Simple English: Learning English. Retrieved April, 7th 2020, from Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia Web site: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_English
Song: Definition of Song. Retrieved April, 7th 2020, from Wikipedia the Free Encyclopedia Web site: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song
EC Vancouver Blog (May 13th 2016). Learning English through songs. Retrieved from https://www.ecenglish.com/en/social/blog/vancouver/2016/05/13/learning-english-through-songs
Learning English: Learning English through Songs. Retrieved April 7th 2020, from Cambridge Assessment English Web site: https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english/parents-and-children/information-for-parents/tips-and-advice/learn-english-through-songs/
Digital fatih.2018.Dampak positive belajar bahasa inggris lewat lagu di http://nationalenglishcentre.com/dampak-positif-belajar-bahasa-inggris-lewat-lagu/ (retrieved April 21st)
understanding of the definition of English is less clear, and for the relationship between English and the song is not bad, and a little advice from me for the definition of the song please add, so that it matches your mind mapping.
BalasHapusOkay...however we need to make it simple.So, I think we just need to define learning English directly without separate it. Or do you have another reason about this?
HapusI just want the readers to understand about mind mapping in the introduction, about the basics, but if you think that way it's simpler, why not.
HapusFor the introduction is good. But, if you have to make it simple. It's okay. Maybe in this sentence we can make it clear with add some word that connect with this statement "Learning English in an activity that most people use to do,", maybe we can add example or whatever to make it clearer. couse I think this word "an activity" like have something missing here. And maybe can make the reader can't get the information that should their get.
Hapusactually this is just an introduction, if you want to add an example it will be contrary to the mind mapping that was made, because that example will enter the body.
HapusYeah, so in the introduction i suggest that we just provide a little bit definition so the reader should read more i mean until finish then they get the point.
HapusIt's different from abstract.
HapusKomentar ini telah dihapus oleh pengarang.
HapusOk. I see
HapusThere is a mistake in Grammar/Structure, example: Every countries (Every is showing singular so it suppose to be "Every country"),
BalasHapusTopic: “Learning English through songs”
BalasHapusFor this topic maybe we can changes this "Learning English Through Songs". I mean we must use capital letter in the headline.
oh sorry I didn't see it, I'll change it.
HapusKomentar ini telah dihapus oleh pengarang.
BalasHapusGroup 4 (essay writing)
HapusJusman A. sahmal
Yuli la amulara
Tri intan saputri
Rofika B. sangaji
For this one. We must use capital letter in the beginning of each name both of first or last name
Couse it's the structure of write and it can make our writing wrong couse of it.
Group 4 (essay writing)
Jusman A. Sahmal
Yuli La Amulara
Tri Intan Saputri
Rofika B. Sangaji
okay done..
HapusI suggest that the last sentence of the introduction changes like this: You can listen to some English songs to enrich your vocabularies, for example you try to jot down the lyrics in the songs then try to memorize it. It will be more fun because you are not only memorizing vocabularies but also memorizing a some which you can sing it every time to entertain yourself or other people.
BalasHapusBecause the last sentence seems like complicated to be understood by the reader. what do you think guys?
BalasHapusYep, it's great.
BalasHapusin my opinion on the body we start the contents with the benefits of listening to English songs before we finally enter the benefits of learning English using songs. so what do you think?
BalasHapusYeaah, I aggre with that
HapusKomentar ini telah dihapus oleh pengarang.
HapusYep, I agree too
HapusThese are some of the benefits of listening to songs in English. Why do you have to use song media? Listening to songs makes the brain relax. Feelings of being happy. With a happy feeling it will be easy to receive lessons. By listening to an English song, learners can listen directly to how to say words in English. This is certainly different from just looking in the dictionary. from here a learner will be more active, The purpose of being active here is that when a learner listens to an English song when he starts to enjoy it he will hum along. Humming is what shows that person is actively producing speech. songs can also get rid of boredom arising from unpleasant learning. Listening to good songs is a fun activity. Of course you can get rid of boredom. This can improve one's English language skills, because listening to English songs involves the main senses of hearing.
BalasHapusGreat Idea...
HapusSorry guys, this is the benefits of listening music to improve our English skills that I found.
HapusBut, the contents are the same as those found by Intan, but I made them per point.
Why do we have to use "song" media to improve our English language skills? Because song media has a positive impact which is very helpful for English learners. So, what are the positive effects? Check out the following discussion!
1. Relax.
Listening to songs makes the brain relax. Feelings of being happy. With a happy feeling it will be easy to receive lessons.
2. Hear direct speech.
By listening to a song, learners can listen directly to the words in English. This is certainly different from just looking in the dictionary.
3. Make active.
Songs make learners active. How come? Isn't listening passive ability in English.
The purpose of being active here is that whenever a learner listens to an English song when he starts to enjoy it, he will hum along. Humming is what shows that person is actively producing speech.
4. Not bored.
Boredom arises from unpleasant learning. Listening to good songs is a fun activity. Of course you can get rid of boredom.
So, the question is whether this positive impact will improve the language skills of an English learner?
Obviously very influential. Of course activities that involve the main senses of hearing make a person's English ability to improve.
How about this one?
HapusThe benefits of listening music to improve our English skills.
1. Will add to the culture of your language or you could say contemporary language
Of course we know that our lives are increasingly becoming more common with new languages or contemporary languages. For example, if you have Caucasian friends in the beginning, you might be accustomed to saying "how are you?" but over time he will think that you are too rigid or can be said to be very formal, but now you can change it to "whats'up?"
2. English songs will familiarize you with English
This is the next benefit that you can often hear English songs often. Getting used to listening to English songs indirectly has trained us in terms of remembering speaking, grammar and pronunciation. Good habits will produce good results and therefore never underestimate the ordinary things that you often do everyday.
Of course we know that our lives are increasingly becoming more common with new languages or contemporary languages. For example, if you have "Caucasian" friends in the beginning, you might be accustomed to saying "how are you?" but over time he will think that you are too rigid or can be said to be very formal, but now you can change it to "whats'up?"
HapusCaucasian here changed with Foreigner.
That's also good
HapusI have another idea...
BalasHapusWhat about this one will be the body
BalasHapusBody
There are some benefits of learning English through songs, we can start with a simple question “why do we have to use songs as the media of learning English?” it is all because of songs are the easiest way to learn English, beside that there are other benefits of learning English through song, such as:
1. Listening to music helps to improve your pronunciation. Pronunciation is one of the most difficult aspects to master when it comes to learning a new language. Learning English through songs will definitely help to train your accent. When you learn your English songs, you will tend to repeat the songs again and again. And hence you will enjoy practicing English instinctively.
2. Songs are valuable sources for vocabulary, sentence structures and grammar. Songs can provide the opportunity for vocabulary practice. They are usually based on a theme or topic that can offer the context for vocabulary learning. The more you listen to the lyrics, the better your English vocabulary becomes. At first, you may not completely understand the lyrics. But comprehension improves over time as you sing and discuss the music with your classmates, family, and friends. Furthermore, many English songs have a simple sentence structure and conversational language that we can easily understand. And therefore, we can learn them by heart quickly.
3. Songs are enjoyable. Immerse yourself in English songs now! We can surely become bored out of our mind by repeatedly listening to a narration or dialogue as we attempt to understand the meaning of a new word or phrase in context. That’s why we need music to boost our motivation in learning English. Fundamentally, popular songs touch the lives of us and are connected with our various interest and everyday experiences. Music, therefore, has become an important part of our daily life. We listen to music to reduce anxiety, to stay positive, to relax. The rhythm and melody of songs enable us to listen to them over and over again. And English songs are useful for us to acquire English.
4. Music increases memory. There’s no doubt that listening to your favorite music can instantly put you in a good mood. But scientists are now discovering that music can do more for you than just lift your spirits. Research has shown that listening to music is one of the best ways to stimulate both sides of our brain. It has a positive impact on not only learning English but also general learning. When we listen to music on a regular basis, we are at the same time improving our memory.
I agree with this, but if I may add a little, that in point number 2 about sentences that are easily understood in the song, actually it depends on the song being listened to, some new songs that I listen to use more figuratively to show feelings or stories in the song, so with the use of this figure a listener will think hard to find out the contents / meaning of the song.
Hapusa little extra about improving one's skills in listening to a song, some of the increased skills when listening to a song is "listening" because the more you listen to a song, the more we repeat the sentence heard, the second is the "speaking" skill after frequently listening to a song someone will start to imitate the song these, starting from the pronunciation, intonation and speed of a singer singing.
HapusAfter knowing the benefits of learning English through songs, now we also have to know to do. There are seven tips how to learn English through songs and to be success on it, you can start with:
BalasHapus1. Choose your songs wisely. This might seem obvious but many learners fail at this simple step. Why? They either listen to random songs on the radio or pick whatever hot songs are currently trending on Spotify or YouTube. As simple as these sounds, to effectively learn English through songs, you must choose songs that you like songs that you'll live with and listen to a hundred times! That way, you will want to listen to them and want to learn the words in your target language.
2. Stick to an effective genre. It is proven that genres like hip-hop have a much higher impact on language learning than pop, for example, as hip-hop songs generally have a rich vocabulary, complex rhyming schemes, and often use slang that is good for everyday communication.
3. Look up lyrics. If you come across words that are unfamiliar to you or you cannot guess the meaning of certain phrases from context, simply look up the song's lyrics. Sites like Genius do an awesome job at providing correct lyrics to most songs out there, which include annotations and explanations written by the artists themselves. How cool is that?!
4. Make vocabulary searches a habit. While you're in the process of looking up lyrics, why not make it a habit? If finding the correct lyrics is not enough for you to understand a song, you can always use a dictionary and learn a new word or two. It never hurts to build a habit that not only helps you learn songs that you like but to improve your English fluency, as well.
5. Find the right music resources. Apart from the obvious choices in YouTube, Pandora, and Spotify, there are plenty of online resources that help you listen to music while learning English. You can have fun while improving your reading, listening, and pronunciation skills all at the same time. Some resources worth checking out are Language Zen, Lyrics Gaps, and Lyrics Training.
6. Talk about music. Talking about music with friends and family is a cool method of improving both your conversation skills and vocabulary. The thing is: when talking about songs, in general, you will inevitably use some musical slang that is uncommon in everyday speech. You will have to learn English words and phrases like: tune (song), catchy (easy to remember), one-hit wonder (an artist with only one successful song), and more. On the bright side, you can never know too many words, right?
7. Listen and learn on the go.
The most effective thing you can do is to always remember and be aware that while you are enjoying your favorite music, you are also in the middle of a language exercise. You are learning. This awareness will help you go a long way! In other words, if you're not even focused on learning, how can you expect learning to happen? You must raise your own awareness of today's tips and tricks before you can expect real results and improvements in your English fluency.
these tips are very good, actually these are easy tips that someone can do to improve their English language skills, but maybe many of them don't know it, anyway the ones who choose will always be adjusted to the mood of listening, sometimes they like to listen to the song adele "someone like you "when this song is still trending, to enjoy every lyric, but in this time listeners of English songs are not inferior to Korean song listeners, actually it all depends on the listener alone, if you want to improve English skills, the song is the easiest media that can you can for free.
HapusI think it's clear enough to explain the part of body of our esay. Any comments?
BalasHapusI also think this is very clear, some of the opinions that we express about the song are enough to be the body of this essay.
HapusYep, I guess so. It's very clear. But, what do you think guys, if we add maybe like how to practice it in our other activity like use guitar to practice, to strengthen our memories of the vocabulary we have memorized before from the music we have heard.
BalasHapusLike "Practicing with a musical instrument"
"If you can play a musical instrument, it will be even better. You can sing English songs that you like accompanied by a musical instrument that you are good at. As an alternative, you can collaborate with friends who can play an instrument and sing together so that learning activities become more fun and exciting."
Good Idea
HapusConclusion.
BalasHapusthe conclusion turned out, learning through songs can help improve English language skills, the song became one of the media that many devotees, do not be surprised if it turns out learning English through songs is very effective. There is plenty of scientific evidence that shows how music can help second language learners get grammar and vocabulary and improve spelling. You can also listen to songs anywhere and anytime.
ourselves are part of an example of learning to learn a second language using songs, we often listen to English songs, have you ever asked yourself how many new words you learned in a song? without you realize, the vocabulary that has up to now must be many, which is where you always repeat every word in the same song, this is a success which shows how effective learning of English through songs.
Conclusion
BalasHapusSo, learning English using song media will make it easier for students to remember and understand vocabulary more effectively. A song will bring up a happy feeling so that learning material is easily captured and understood by students. In addition, the selection of songs with clear pronunciation can also accustom the ear to listening and listening to the pronunciation of English that is good and right.
This is in line with what was said by Suprijono who stated that the use of instructional media such as English songs can stimulate learners to understand and dive into the real life situations of native English speakers and also stimulate learners to practice their language skills, namely listening, reading and writing . In addition, learning to listen to English using song media also has advantages. One of these advantages is that it can help students to strengthen and increase their self-confidence by the process of using their own songs.
Based on this, the use of song media in listening learning provides great benefits in learning English. These benefits can improve students' English proficiency, especially listening. Therefore, song media is highly recommended and is very effective when applied in learning.
Great guys...I have tried to compile all your conclusion
BalasHapusokay
HapusConclusion:
BalasHapusSo, learning English through songs can help students to improve their English skills and English proficiency. Songs become one of the media that many devotees because songs, especially English songs, mostly carry instruments that are not mellow, are more adaptive, or are easy to keep up with the times, the instruments are very cool, like growing our imagination as if the tips are abroad, cultural acculturation, the soul of the music itself interact more to our lives, and the most important thing is to learn English as well. That’s why, do not be surprised if it turns out learning English through songs is very effective. Moreover there is plenty of scientific evidence that shows how music can help second language learners get grammar and vocabulary and improve spelling. You can also listen to songs anywhere and anytime. Then now we have to realize that learning English through songs is very effective and successful.
What do you think? Can it be our conclusion?
BalasHapusYep, I think it's great.
HapusWe can use it to be our conclusion.
yes that's perfect.
HapusGreat everyone...Now let's fix our essay then we publish it.
BalasHapusokay.
HapusCheck this web site guys... https://group4essaywriting.blogspot.com/2020/04/learning-english-through-songs-by-group.html?m=1
BalasHapusThat's our fixed essay
Hapusokay, thank you.
Hapus