Abstract: this article under discussion depicts the main reasons for the use of music in the educational
process. The author of the article believes that the use of music in learning the English language
helps to master the material in a better way, because music is a powerful tool for learning. The
didactic combination of language and music is very effective, and this fact has been repeatedly
confirmed in various experiments. Language and music are two ways of human communication and
self-expression. For this reason, the methods of teaching music and language are very similar. Good
music can help students overcome their fear of speaking to the teacher, fear of speaking to speak in
front of the audience in the official classroom environment. Good music creates a friendly atmosphere
during class which motivates learners to master a foreign language.
Keywords: overcome, fear, music, official, friendly, official, lesson, methods, experiment, teaching
tool.
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works; singing, i.e. vocal performance of works, both with and without instrumental musical
accompaniment, i.e. a drop, solo and choral singing; video clips with recordings of popular songs in
different languages of the world; verbal information from the world of music industry, including
articles, reviews, music ratings, interviews, announcements, advertisements, fragments of TV and
radio programs about the world of music; non-verbal information from the world of music industry:
Photos of musical ensembles and individual performers; musicians; composers; producers; musical
instruments; interiors of modern video studios and concert halls, etc.
Another important factor is the need to use music when learning a foreign language. According to
both domestic and foreign psychologists, music is one of the most effective ways to remember
linguistic material, because it represents a type of activity that involves both hemispheres of the brain,
which in turn contributes to the storage of the material and, as experience shows, its faster
reproduction [2].
The methodological advantages of songwriting in teaching a foreign language, and not only a
foreign language, are obvious. It is known that in Ancient Greece, many texts are taught singing, and
in many schools in France and the United States it is practiced now. It is also possible to say about
India, where at present in primary school alphabet and arithmetic are taught by singing.
Why should music be more widely used in foreign language classes? If you consider a foreign
language as a subject of study, then along with solving purely pragmatic problems of development of
speech skills in oral and written speech, a foreign language is considered as a means of expanding
humanities, development of emotional and sensual perception of the world. The formation of
communicative competence in the broadest sense of the word is based on certain moral and value
guidelines, which are formed and developed not only at the level of formal logic and cognitive
abilities. Underestimating the use of other means of obtaining information in addition to printed texts
and their verbal discussion leads to some one-sidedness, distortion in human development, some
richness, when the perception of the world is based only on the formal logic of the mind, which is
unnatural, disturbing the inner harmony of man, the harmony of his relations with the outside world.
As it is known, in pedagogical psychology different types of perception and, accordingly, types of
students with predominance of this or that type are distinguished.
However, formal, ill-considered, excessive fascination with any means of education, as a rule,
does not bring positive results. A competent teacher will always be able to determine the degree of
methodological and pedagogical expediency of the use of music for the formation of language, speech,
socio-cultural skills and abilities in each particular case and refuse to use it in another case. In order to
choose the best methods of working with music in the classroom, I will consider options for working
with some of the above types of musical information.
There are obvious reasons to use music in the educational process. They are the following:
Creating a certain mood and appropriate atmosphere of communication.
Setting the pace of the task.
Relieving the tension
Providing emotional switching from one activity to another.
Facilitating the creation of a learning situation with the help of non-verbal information supports.
Adding a national flavour to the communication situation (when developing receptive and
productive speech activities).
Using imagination, emotions, to form feelings and promote their verbal expression.
Expanding the range of country studies and socio-cultural knowledge.
It is obvious that for educational purposes it is desirable to use songs with winning lyrics.
However, the lyrics in the song are not everything. The song should have a certain rhythm, it should
"sing well". There are songs that you need to listen to, but there are also songs that are designed, above
all, to move under them at a certain pace and rhythm, and the meaning is not so important. The song in
this case is simply designed to create a certain atmosphere, the effect of involvement in a single action.
To conclude, through interactions, students can improve their language level as they listen to or
read authentic texts, or just exchange their opinions in conversations, discussions, debates, or game-
based tasks on applied material in the sphere of music.
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Abstract: the article under discussion touches upon the strategies applied in enlarging the learners’
vocabulary while learning foreign languages. The author of the article suggests different ways to
improve the learners’ vocabulary. According to the author, expanding vocabulary is a priority for
those who want to learn how to maintain a conversation with foreigners. This is partly true, because
the meanings of familiar words can often be guessed about the general meaning of the statement.
However, there are also situations in which a lack of understanding of the grammatical and syntactic
connections can lead to the fact that the phrase as a whole will acquire the opposite true meaning for
you. In any case, words are still the basic elements of speech, and therefore the number of words you
know depends largely on the success of communication in English.
Keywords: vocabulary, learners, translation, traditional method, vocabulary in context, phrase,
meaning, connection, communication.