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Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners

This paper documents students’ response to popular songs in the language classroom and asserts that songs can be a form of useful resource in the language classroom for purposes of language development and to connect learners to issues that are of interest to young adults. This paper reports the fin...

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Main Authors: Malachi Edwin Vethamani,, Too, Wei Keong
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Language:English
Published: Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2008
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spelling my-ukm.journal.10792016-12-14T06:28:45Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1079/ Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners Malachi Edwin Vethamani, Too, Wei Keong This paper documents students’ response to popular songs in the language classroom and asserts that songs can be a form of useful resource in the language classroom for purposes of language development and to connect learners to issues that are of interest to young adults. This paper reports the findings of a study which used two popular songs in a language classroom to develop reading, writing and speaking skills. The researchers use songs to connect their learners to both the issues in the texts and language elements. The study indicates that students were able to express their viewpoints in relation to the issues in the songs and that the songs, which were familiar to the learners, encouraged them to participate in the classroom activities Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM 2008 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1079/1/5-MALACHI_EDWIN_VETHAMANI_5.pdf Malachi Edwin Vethamani, and Too, Wei Keong (2008) Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 14 . pp. 95-108. ISSN 0128-5157 http://www.ukm.my/~ppbl/3L/3LHome.html
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description This paper documents students’ response to popular songs in the language classroom and asserts that songs can be a form of useful resource in the language classroom for purposes of language development and to connect learners to issues that are of interest to young adults. This paper reports the findings of a study which used two popular songs in a language classroom to develop reading, writing and speaking skills. The researchers use songs to connect their learners to both the issues in the texts and language elements. The study indicates that students were able to express their viewpoints in relation to the issues in the songs and that the songs, which were familiar to the learners, encouraged them to participate in the classroom activities
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author Malachi Edwin Vethamani,
Too, Wei Keong
spellingShingle Malachi Edwin Vethamani,
Too, Wei Keong
Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners
author_facet Malachi Edwin Vethamani,
Too, Wei Keong
author_sort Malachi Edwin Vethamani,
title Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners
title_short Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners
title_full Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners
title_fullStr Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners
title_full_unstemmed Connecting Linkin Park and Good Charlotte to ESL learners
title_sort connecting linkin park and good charlotte to esl learners
publisher Pusat Pengajian Bahasa dan Linguistik, FSSK, UKM
publishDate 2008
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1079/1/5-MALACHI_EDWIN_VETHAMANI_5.pdf
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