How music can help teaching the English language to teenagers

Abstract

This work has as central theme the use of music to learn the English language, but mainly in how can music be used as a teaching tool of vocabulary by teachers. Teaching through activities with music allows to contextualize and give meaning to learning, because the student will realize that the music, he is studying at school is the same as he hears on the radio or on television, that the English language is no longer a meaningless matter. The methodology used in this paper was be descriptive, with the main objective to describe how the teacher can use music to teach new vocabulary. The discussion shows that music may be a great tool to combine fun and learning, especially considering the reality of public schools in Brazil (sic).