THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN SPANISH CLASSROOMS
THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN SPANISH CLASSROOMS

Summary/Abstract: New trends in language teaching include the use of technology in the classroom, as they stimulate the active participation of students in the classroom. Over the last few years, modern language teaching has included songs on the list of ludic activities. As we well know, music has the ability to predispose us, helps us to get out of everyday life and relax. For this reason, music becomes a useful tool in the teaching-learning process. Through songs, we can work on grammar (verb tenses, nouns, degrees of comparison of adjectives or even morphological and syntactic analysis), vocabulary exercises (various topics, idiomatic and colloquial expressions), we can check if students have mastered spelling and punctuation rules, emphasizing “problematic” sounds (b-v, ll-y, r-rr, s-z-c+e/i, j-g+e/i, h-Ø) and cultural and civilizational aspects. At the same time, the songs help students to become familiar with the accent of the Spanish language and help to improve their understanding of an audible text. All this contributes to learning Spanish in a pleasant, fun and contextualized environment. Therefore, in this article we aim to illustrate the ludic side of music and how it can be used in Spanish language courses as a foreign language to introduce or consolidate content from various language compartments (grammar, vocabulary, spelling and punctuation). We will also mention the advantages of introducing music in the process of teaching-learning Spanish as a foreign language. Of course, we will also present conclusive examples for each mentioned activity, taken from the materials created and used by us in class.

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