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English songs in learning EnglishThere is no doubt about the important role which English has played in the world today. Everywhere, no matter the country is large or small, people own their language, and uses it for munication. The frequency of speaking is definitely higher than that of writing. As an English learner, he or she should gain the ability of municating in English, so that there is a necessity to learn spoken English well. . However, many Chinese people are speaking chinglish although students get at least six years’ English teaching in their middle school. This shows that traditional teaching method, known as “cram” or “duckstyle” model for a long time, lacks of vitality and interest and ignores the munication function of English. Isolated grammar structures and sentence rules make learners feel dull in the process of English learning. Its direct consequence is that the students bee passive learners. Gradually losing enthusiasm bees students’ main problem. They bury themselves in pursuing higher marks in their paper test, which only include reading, listening, writing except oral part. That seems to offer reasonable excuse for students to avoid speaking. That usually happens in middle schools, especially in high school. They ignore the application of English, and do not know that English is a language in which most of the time is used in speaking rather than writing. Hence, it is urgent for them to realize the fact that they should attach much importance to spoken English. That tells us that it is inevitable for us to arose students’ interest and pay more attention on speaking. Music makes it possible. At the beginning of human society, most of the farmers expressed their feelings by singing. Now that people hold a deep affection in songs, which have a prominent significance on language learning, because they can motive students to learn and make learning interesting, why not take advantage of songs to practice oral English? Songs and language has two same features, one is to convey the message, and the other is the procession of sounds.We speak brilliant English from four ingredients: pronunciation, intonation, rhythm, and the ponent of what we say (we regard it as words). We can change the last one at will. But the other three elements need to practice with the passage of time. An English song involves pronunciation, tune, rhythm, lyrics. Compared with speaking English, singing an English song almost accord with the former. Singing is sort of speaking. Since we know the truth, we can improve our spoken English and the ability to municate in English by singing English songs.Music perception starts before birth, so it is less energy demanding. Pleasant melody can cheer up a person, which can help the brain to memorize things more quickly and keep them for a longer time. So students can make use if English songs to memorize words and enlarge vocabulary. And music provides a relaxing condition, in which students can easily receive the information naturally. People trend to learn more and better when they are happy as their minds are in a good order. “Happy people are productive people” as the Elaineone said. English songs can stimulate the central nervous system of English learners through sound wave, as a result a kind of good emotions can be developed。t let goLooking at a crowded streetListening to my own heart beatSo many peopleAll around the worldTell me where do I findSomeone like you girlTake me to your heart Lyrics in these sentences “but, won’t, let, at, street, heart ” skims [t], “around, find” skims [d], “take” skims [k] pronunciation in the practical singing. In a word, students can master the ability to skim the pronunciation of [p], [b], [t], [d], [k], [g] properly. When any of those phonemes appears in the songs, it should be skimmed. Rhythm and ToneTo mand excellent spoken English, students not only need correct grammars and words, but also have a good rhythm and tone. Beautiful English songs are different from noise because they have nice rhythm, which causes a nice melody. In a rhythm group, a syllable is stressed similar to beat in music and this stressed syllable plays a key role in the rhythm of spoken English. The rhythm of music is regularly repeated, which is also a feature in spoken English. When one can sing an English song well, he will naturally know which syllable to stress, and master the regularity of the sentence, now how to pause and speed. These appear in a periodical way in spoken English. When one has mastered these well, his spoken English will have a good rhythm. In fact, singing is sort of speaking. Tone is also an important factor in spoken English. When one sings an English song, he imitates the pitch of the words, and he will put all the emotion into it, spontaneously, he has a good tone of English. B