Connect With Music: Lessons Any Teacher Can Teach!

 “Any teacher can integrate music into his or her curriculum. No special training or skills are necessary.  Education World offers four fun lessons -- plus more ideas and links to dozens more lessons -- that combine music and other subject.” 

ESL Café Idea Cookbook - Music

 “Over 40 ideas on how to use music in teaching ESL. These were submitted by teachers.”

 ESL Through Music

“The new site now features additional articles supporting the use of music as well as an annotated bibliography of books and CD's that teachers will find particularly helpful when they use music to instruct English.  As before, this site was created for educators who are interested in promoting the acquisition of English through music.”

ETNI’s Music

 "The aim of ETNI is to set up an English Teachers network on the Internet which serves both as an English teachers professional support group (both by teachers and for teachers) and a way by which to ease teachers into the use of the Internet in the classroom."

 Music and Song Links for Teachers

 “These sites contain listening activities. For your students to use many of these activities, they must have a sound card, earphones or speakers, and their browsers (Netscape or Internet Explorer) must have a 'plug-in' which will play music, such as Shockwave, Crescendo, or Real Audio.”

 Musical Activities for Young Learners of EFL

 "It has been said that children have a natural musical taste and that play is the only activity that they take seriously. If this is so, teachers should not let song practice or any activity seem like work. They should keep it spontaneous. This has been shown to apply even to language teachers."

 Reasons for Using Songs in the ESL/EFL Classroom

"Songs have become an integral part of our language experience, and if used in coordination with a language lesson they can be of great value. Fortunately, with the expanding prevalence of the Internet and specifically the World Wide Web into both the classrooms and lives of students, access to music and lyrics has been made easier. This paper will focus on the reasons for using songs by demonstrating their effectiveness as a learning tool."

 Songs for Teaching: Using Music to Promote Learning

 “This site contains thousands of pages for you to peruse -- many with lyrics, sound clips, and teaching suggestions. The top educational pros offer practical suggestions based on the latest in brain-based learning. Innovative teachers share their classroom pointers and extension activities using children's music.”

 Teaching Language with Music

 “This page is dedicated to all teachers of second or other languages who like to use music -- and especially popular songs -- to enliven, enhance, and invigorate their classes. The primary focus is on English as a Second Language teaching, but the suggestions made here can be easily translated into other languages.”

 Using Music in the Adult ESL Classroom

 ”Music can be used in the adult English as a second language (ESL) classroom to create a learning environment; to build listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills; to increase vocabulary; and to expand cultural knowledge. This digest looks briefly at research and offers strategies for using music in the adult ESL classroom.”

Accessed 10 January 2008