SONG IN LISTENING
What are songs?
Ostojic, (1987:50) defines that song or music one of
basic expressions of the human spirit that contains the unique meanings. His
centimes that song can put forward different meanings (expressions), such as
advise critics. Love, etc, as a matter of act, song has become one of the
important part in English language teaching.
Song is a feeling, emotion and thought expressions
in a – rhythm (Neville, 1981: 60). Song is a piece of music with words that are
song (Webster Dictionary, 1989:273). Song is a kind of voice which has rhythm
in it (Poewadarminta, 1976: 55).
The advanced learner’s dictionary (1963:958) defines
song a short poem or number of verses set to music and intended to be sung.
From those definitions it can be concluder that song
is a kind of literary works that is used to entertain people. We can conclude
that song is a piece of music with words that intended to be sung. Living
without song and music will make the world very lonely.
Why use song?
There some reasons of using in language learning
given by Rost (1991: 23):
1) Song
has a great tender to attract the attention of people that other forms of mass
media may lack.
2) Students
are often willing to learn to sing a song in a foreign language not fully
understand or partially understand the meaning of words.
3) Songs
will give or share the students with amount of dramatic departure from the
normal pattern that they can use in a brief moment of time.
4) Songs
introduce an atmosphere of gaiety, fun and informality in the classroom, which
is far more conducive environment for language learning.
Songs can allow the students to
have a great and whole participation during classroom takes process because at
least all of the students will sing together.
