Lyricstraining.com

Hi everyone!

Have you ever tried learning new language through songs? How? One way of doing this is through the website, known as  LyricsTraining  which might be helpful in teaching English through songs.

                           Video on how to use Lyricstraining. com


We can choose songs either in English, Fench. Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portugeese or German. Teacher can introduce this website to students to teach English through songs in the classroom.
In this website, students can choose their own favourites songs and they need to fill in the blanks provided with the right lyrics. They can choose the level they want; Beginner, Intermediate or Expert. In the Beginner and Intermediate levels, students need to fill in the blanks with the right lyrics while in Expert, they have to write the full lyrics of the songs.

As mentioned earlier, this website may be helpful in teaching English especially on the vocabulary aspect.

• This can be done by teaching new vocabulary in English through songs. Students may acquire new vocabulary through the song in which each new song introduces new vocabulay for students.
•  Besides, the learning process may be more effective as students will be more attracted in learning new knowledge through the use of audio and visual aids.
• Students may become more relaxed in learning new knowledge through songs. The affective filter may be lowered and knowledge can be absorbed effectively and faster.
• In addition, this will promote autonomous learning to students. At the same time, this may motivate students to learn new language as they can explore the new language by themselves through the songs by themselves.

The use of this website in teaching English  may cause drawbacks too. However, these can be avoided if teacher knows how to act properly. Problems that might occur as following;

• Students may not use this website for learning, instead only use it for fun in the class only. In order to solve this problem, teacher can ask students to provide a notebook which contains all the new vocabulary that they have acquired from the songs. Then, they need to submit their notebooks to teacher at the end of the week to ensure that they really learn new vocabulary from the songs in that week.
• Another problem that may arise is inappropriate song's lyric. Some songs may contain inappropriate lyrics which are not suitable for student to learn. Therefore, to solve this, teacher has to select few songs  which are suitable for students before the lesson begins. So, teachers should play their roles to avoid such problems in their  class in the future.

You can choose one of Michael Jackson's hit songs, "Beat It" too to fill in blanks with the right lyrics!

Even you can create one with your favourite song. Below is the tutorial video on how to make your own song activity using this website.

Hope you really have fun in exploring this website.

Bye!