Function of Games in Language Learning
about their experiences: they reassure them in their moments of trouble. They are the art form which could satisfy and entertain its listener, the lyric fits the music
and the music fits the lyrics and together they form a complete unit. Another reason might be the ability of songs and music in general to affect their emotions.
Many people can be moved to tears or other strong emotions by music, and songs can acquire strong emotional associations with people, events and places.
Songs have personal quality that makes the listener react as the songs were being sung for the listener personally.
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This might be because songs directly have music inside which makes it balanced in the melody. As stated before that the lyrics or words of the song fit
the music and music fits the lyric back. It makes the listener feel joy while listening to it, because every fiber of their being is crawled by the music of the
song, becoming one and affecting many aspects of our lives. The first aspect is that Music affects shopping habits, the higher profitability is
translated by the proper selection of music. When background music is present in the shopping situation, people feel less crowded and less stressed.
Secondly, Music in the use has some beneficial effects through our moods. It can calm, relax, excite, motivate to action or in other words suggest appropriate
emotions to people. For instance people become aroused; their blood pressure and heartbeat rise, their bodies focus, and their muscles tense when music excites
them. Thirdly, that music affects productivity
. Someone’s doing some activities, in other words all sorts of routine tasks, such as hiking, jogging, typing, sewing, and
driving more successfully when music accompanies the these activities. This is because music makes assembly line efficiency improves when background music
is linked to repeated motion at appropriate speeds. The last, music is also beneficial in
altering human’s physiology, making people happier, or even healthier. It can help the body fight of viruses, reducing
stress hormone levels and affecting the heartbeat.
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Lenn Millbower, Training with a Beat: the Teaching Power of Music, Canada: Stylus Publishing,LLC, 2000. p.8
Here, the writer tried to classify some songs which are frequently used in teaching English vocabulary. Some songs will accompany the teaching of
vocabulary when it fits to the materials of the lesson. Songs are classified as follows:
1 Activity song Looking at its type, activity song is a song which full of action verbs
vocabulary which makes the listener motivated to move and do what is written in the lyric. The song contains of the activities serve a variety of purposes: to
introduce or reinforce vocabulary knowledge, to provide practice using prediction skills, to develop awareness of coherence, and to improve
storytelling ability.
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2 Counting Song It is a song type which will appropriately be used in the teaching of
counting numbers. It is a popular in teaching basic mathematic subject in English.
3 Learning song Every English song for children is actually for their learning activity, this
song is just the song contains of vocabularies students need to know.