Author

Judi Dinets

Date of Award

12-7-2015

Document Type

Thesis

Superseded Degree Name

Master of Arts in Education (Literacy and ESL)

Colleges & School

College Of Education And Leadership

First Advisor

Marian Graeven Peter, PhD

Library of Congress Subject Heading

Language acquisition; Music in education; Education, Primary

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the efficiency of teaching English language learners in any content area such as science with the help of songs in order to accelerate their acquisition of the material. The study involved four students, ranging in age from seven to eight. Of these participants one student joined the group later on in the study. The study, which lasted for six weeks, consisted of science classes, based on the theme of weather. Five science lessons were taught with the help of songs, while the other four were taught without the help of songs. The participants were acquiring vocabulary, grammatical structure, and comprehension through the four domains of language. The results contradicted the anticipations since students had better outcomes in the last four lessons where there were no songs involved.

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Open Access

OCLC Number

936060067

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