Enjoying Music or Learning English?

What is it and why is it good for language teaching?

Learning English for most Chinese students have been long stereotyped as something boring and difficult, especially memorizing some new words.

However, it is a brand new scenario with Lyricstraining. As the name of this website shows, it's about lyric training. You may wonder how we can apply this tool to English teaching, let me explain how this works for you:

How might you use it in a language teaching context?

The above picture is a screeshot from the web when I am doing the training. When you select a song, you will watch the music video of it from youtube and need to fill in the blanks of the lyrics as the song goes. If you fail to fill in with the right word, the video will automatically pause. Then you can replay this single sentence by simply typing the "up" button on your keyboard. You can listen to each sentence as many times as you like. You can also skip a certain blank when you really feel desperate. Further, you can start over anytime you like.

This website is perfectly suitable for training intensive listening skills. With visual aid while listening, the exercise stands to be much less boring.

Also, we don't have to spend too much time on it. 10 to 15 minutes per day is quite enough for a student. They don't have to treat this some exercise, rather, it can considered as some unwinding and entertaining activities when they get tired from homework.

Limitations:

1.Some students might be an expert in music, and they might've been fairly familiar with the lyrics before listening, so not really much of exercise for them.

2.Most of the videos are from youtube, which is still blocked in China. In this case, lyricstraining is not that practical in China now.