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THU DAU MOT UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES GRADUATE PAPER TITLE “HOW TO APPLY ENGLISH SONGS EFFECTIVELY IN TEACHING ENGLISH FOR KINDERGARTEN” Student name Student code Class Course Major English Language Lecturer Binh Duong, APRIL 2019 STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP Student full name Student ID Title of paper How to apply English songs effectively in teaching English for kindergarten I hereby confirm that I am the sole author of the paper presented Where the work of others has be.

THU DAU MOT UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Binh Duong, APRIL 2019

STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP

Student full name:

Student ID

Title of paper How to apply English songs effectively in

teaching English for kindergarten

I hereby confirm that I am the sole author of the paper presented

Where the work of others has been consulted, this is duly

acknowledged in the paper’s bibliography I have also not

consulted any other unnamed online sources All verbatim or referentialuse of the sources named in the bibliography has been

specifically indicated in the text

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Binh Duong, April 26 th ,2019

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How a happy graduate paper completed! The completion of this research paper will be not finalized without some important supporters I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of people who enthusiastically helped me.

First of all, I would like to show my thankful to all the instructors at Thu Dau Mot University who provided me lots of useful knowledge and skills in English through subjects during four years Moreover, I desire to express my deep gratitude to all the assistance of my lecturers,

MA Nguyen Thanh Xuan who was always patient to listen my problems, guided me to solve them and gave me enthusiastic encouragement as well as thoughtful comments

Next, I am truly thankful director, manager, teachers and all of staffs for supporting me whole time during the survey.

Next, it is fortunate for me to receive lots of useful information and documents from my classmates

Then, I also would like to express my appreciation to some English centers and kindergartens which allowed me to make survey directly

Besides that I really thank my family who supported me in spirit during some sleepless nights

Finally, thank to my effort and try, this research is completed and it will be a positive

development during studying at Thu Dau Mot university

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ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is helping teachers and leaners will have an objective review about choosing a new teaching method apply in teaching, included advantages, aim and demonstration data of this method The English songs play a role in motivating skills of listening, speaking, respond and reaction of leaners.

Besides that, I would like some recommendations for choosing songs to teach new words, structure; review previous lesson.

From the observation and direct interview and other online sources, I will present part by part to prove that how English song applied for teaching effectively affect to both teachers and leaners

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP i

ACKNOWLEDGMENT ii

ABSTRACT iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS iv

LIST OF TABLES v

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1

1.1 General introduction 1

1.2 The aim of study 2

1.3 Significance of the study 2

1.4 Research question 2

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 3

2.1 Definitions of songs 3

2.2 The advantage of using songs in teaching English 3

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY 5

3.1 Research method 5

3.2 Participants for the research 6

3.3 Data collection 6

CHAPTER 4: DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION 9

4.1 Discussion on the results 9

4.1 Recommendation 9

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION 11

REFERENCES vi

APPENDICES vii

LIST OF TABLE

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1 Table 1: Students survey results

2 Table 2: Students survey results

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 General introduction

Nowadays, English is a popular language in the world, so it isimportant for children to learn English from an early age Actually, in VietNam more and more people learn and use English to mine wide theknowledge and get into the world It seems that English is graduallybecoming a means to help children be more confident when communicatingwith foreigners

As we see, language directly affects children and helps childrendevelop more comprehensively An experienced teacher said, “Children areable to absorb language in a natural way and especially when children are inkindergarten age Unlike adults, children can receive language without beingaware that they are learning that language” Because of the ability to hearand imitate the pronunciation quickly and accurately, that makes childrenlearn the language much easier

The children get a chance to learn a foreign language from an earlyage, they will tend to approach other languages more naturally and quickly.Accordingly, children’s learning foreign language in childhood will help createknowledge base to study more and more foreign languages for children

Because of that cause, there are a lot of kindergartens where areusing English as the second language in teaching or adding English lessonsinto activities on the class for children According to scientists, they point outthe good method to motivate and reach the mind to "learn" foreignlanguages with children is through active games, storytelling, songs, role-

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playing or craft art In these activities, learning English via songs is anattractive method with children, because they like the melody and thechildren try to sing along to the music, which contributes to train the child'slistening and speaking skills.

In this research, if only the topic “How to apply English songs effectively in teaching English for kindergarten?” were clarified.

1.2 The aim of study

Through the report, I wish people knew “How important Englishteaching for children is!” at early stage to maximize their ability and takeadvantage of the open-minded of children By recommending the effectivemethods to apply songs in teaching English for children, I hope I havecontributed some ideas to make interesting lessons in kindergarten

1.3 Significance of the study

At the age of 3 years and over, children can distinguish Vietnamese andEnglish so they can start teaching children to learn English at this age.However, the parents must choose the correct learning method inaccordance with the physiological mind, the ability to acquire, the growthstage of the child

The young psychology of this period prefers games and outdooractivities so the parents cannot force them to study seriously with books andpens So it is very important to choose the correct method which is suitablewith the psychophysiological factors, characteristics of receiving information

of preschool children, in order to keep them interested in English andnaturally approaching English

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1.4 Research question

The researcher wishes to raise the questions as follows:

What are the advantages of using English songs in teaching English forkindergarten?

How to apply English songs effectively in teaching English for kindergarten?

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW

According to Study.com, its most basic, a song is “a short piece ofmusic, usually with words It combines melody and vocals, although somecomposers have written instrumental pieces, or musical works withoutwords, that mimic the quality of a singing voice”

Generally, by the simple explanation, song is a combination of musicalnote and lyric which transfer to listener by singing

2.2 The advantage of using songs in teaching English

It’s true to say that we will be not recognized its strong-points until westart to research it There are many advantages from using English song in

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teaching, especially in developing listening and vocabulary Some keyadvantages include:

2.2.1 Making children interested in lesson

Teaching English to children through dense pages of text or just textonly that make them feel boring As a result, the consequence may not be ashoped by parents But teaching children to learn English through songs iscompletely different

We all know that children love listening to children's music because ofthe cuteness and closeness, so if we let children get used to the Englishsongs, they will definitely absorb it

Even if the learners can’t know anything yet, because they are tooyoung to understand, they are not interested in this issue at all! What theypay attention to be the melody of the song when they are listening to it.Especially songs for children are never boring

2.2.2 Practicing pronunciation correctly

Instead of just sitting on a desk, reading and listening to the words inEnglish many time to practice pronouncing correctly, this is now much easierand more interesting Trying to sit on the sofa or take a walk around thepark, sitting on the bus but your child can still practice pronunciation only byturning on an English song and paying close attention to how the singer takes

Most of the songs which are used to teach English for learners havepopular words in life Therefore, music helps them to become familiar withgrammar and English communication and when they grow up they form agood reflexive ability when communicating with foreigners They will be alsonot surprised to listen to the words hardly ever having a chance on books.2.2.4 Improving vocabulary

Teaching children to learn English through songs also increases Englishvocabulary quite well Sometimes there are very close words but children donot understand the meaning, when the children listen to the songs, theywould like to know what these words mean, so their vocabulary increasessignificantly So we can teach children the songs about family, friends,animals, etc

2.2.5 Developing listening skills

In order communicate well, children must first hear what others say Ifthe they would like to be good at listening skill, the words is not sufficient,they should be familiar with listening to foreigners speaking regularly.Listening to songs will help children improve their listening skills, forexample: important words, how to connect words, swallow words offoreigners

2.2.6 Helping your child entertain

Finally, it is undeniable that the important benefit of learning Englishthrough songs is relaxation After children always want funs, they like to playgames, make noisy, be naughty, etc., everything is for their entertainment.Consequently, this is a good technique to encourage the children to interestand study at the same time

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CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY

3.1 Research method

This research paper is applied with some methods to complete this researchpaper:

3.1.1 The method of reading scanning documents

There are many sources from library and internet to read and scan carefully.The document which is used to be the materials of this study is filteredconsiderately

3.1.2 Observation, attending professional activities, meetings of the Englishsubject of some kindergartens

Observation method is really effective, so this method has been applying inmany Centers After observation, the observers have opportunities toattending professional activities, meetings of the English subject of somekindergartens that helps them get lots of useful experiences

3.1.4 Directly interview and talk to children

The teachers should interview and talk to children because they need toknow what students want, what students like through the English songs andthe effectiveness of this method

3.2 Participants for the research

The report focuses on children at age from 3 to 5 who attends Englishspeaking kindergarten or kindergarten with English lesson There are fortychildren and five teachers attended the survey

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3.3 Data collection

The researcher has designed typical questions, which cover all researchquestion content and the frequently of using songs in teaching English inkindergarten and also the interests of children in English songs and howmany songs does they know

To collect information concerning the current situation of teaching andlearning English by songs in kindergarten, the author conducted interviewswith the children and also the teacher, even some children’s parents.Normally the interview consists of some simple questions:

Do you know any English song? Yes

No

100

Can you sing a little for me, teacher

and also other classmate?

YesNo

8515

No

7030

9010

Table 1: Students survey results

After finishing students’ interview, there were 100% of kids who answeredthat they knew English songs 85% of them were willing to sing in front ofclass, just 15 % of students did not sing because of some reasons assomeone were shy and someone could not remember the lyric clearly Atthis question “ Can you name it?” there were 70% of students could say thename of the song which they remembered, the rest of children could not say

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the name of any songs but they still memorize most of the lyric and all themelody 100% of kids replied they really love English songs 90% of kids saidyes with question “Do you want to know more English song?”, the rest ofthem did not want to know some new songs because they liked old songsmore.

Do you use English song in teaching

English for kids?

Yes No

100

How frequently you teach a new song

for the kids?

1 time/week

2 times/week

3 times/week

62.52512.5How do you help them in memorizing

and practicing English song in daily

activities?

Guessing wordsSinging again

62.537.5

How many new words do you teach in a

song?

Less 5 wordsMore 5 words

7525

Do you usually use English song to

review the previous lesson?

YesNo

62.537.5

Table 2: Teachers survey results

100% teachers used English songs to teach English to their kids 62.5%

of them uses English one time per week to teach new words, 25% ofteachers taught English through English songs two times a week and 12.5%

of teacher used English songs to teach English 3 times a week Moreover,teachers helps students in memorizing and practicing English song in dailyactivities by Guessing words and singing again; there were 62.5% of teachers

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who used guessing words and 37.5% used singing again.75% of them saidthat they usually teach less 5 words in a song and 25% of them thought theyshould teach more 5 words in a song Besides, they also used English song toreview previous lesson, 62.5% did it and 37.5% of them had opposite idea.

Above survey is based on Clover English Center At the school,normally the kids are taught one English song per week, together withpractice and review the songs were learnt earlier The activities can belearning new song, singing with teacher or friends, or listening and dancingfollow by English song or practicing exercise with a song All teachers feelthat the method is effective and interesting with the children The parentsmay too busy to teach their kids but they know their kids can sing at leastone English song and their children love to watch/hear English song at home

as well

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