The Guideline in Selecting Songs

2.3 The Guideline in Selecting Songs

According to Saricoban and Metin 2000 if the teacher selects songs properly and adopts them carefully, the teacher will benefit from songs in all phases of teaching grammar. They also add that in selecting songs, the teacher should consider the ages of the students, the interests of the students and the language of the songs. This statement is in line with Keegan’s 1997 who states three criteria of selecting songs. First, the singer must have clear voice. Second, the recording of the songs should be good and clear. Third, the language of the songs must be suitable with the level of the students. Meanwhile, Tsai and Lin 2001 say that in selecting and using songs, the teacher must take into account some factors, such as the relevancy to the course syllabus and linguistic skills to be trained. In conclusion, there are three main factors that should be considered in selecting songs. First, the songs should be suitable with the level of the students. Second, songs should be clear, either the voice of the singer or the recording of the songs. Third, the songs are relevant to the lesson. In this research, there were three songs which were selected to teach tenses: “Toms Diner” by Suzanne Vega for teaching simple present tense and present continuous tense, “Elevator” by David Archuleta for teaching simple present tense and simple past tense, “ I Miss You” by Miley Cyrus for teaching simple past tense and present continuous tense. Those songs were selected because they were sung at a slower rate and they didn’t contain violent lyrics so that they were suitable with the level of the students. Besides that, the voice of the singers and the recording of the songs were clear. Moreover, the songs were relevant to the lesson since they covered the tenses that were taught. All of those songs were downloaded from the internet that was from Bursa Lagu. follow-up assignment. All of the steps were important to be done in a sequence in order to gain success in teaching and learning process. 2.5 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Songs in the Classroom 2.5.1