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By Fazreena Aryani bt Abu Bakar Mohamad Rizal bin Abdullah Muhamad Ammar bin Safiee
Linguistic awareness:
Students can discuss differences between spoken and written language on the basis of lyrics and singing. Folk songs from different English speaking countries such as America, Canada, Australia, Ireland can be a great resource for teaching linguistic and cultural awareness
Dr. Tomatis also described fetal and infant orientation to the melody contours of their native language, recognizing the mother's voice (as cited in Thompson and Andrews, 181-182).
Interconnections between the musical and linguistic areas enable music to assist in learning vocabulary and phrases, which tasks are governed by the linguistic intelligence.
poetry
According to Nile Stanley, a reading specialist, researcher, and professor of education, Poetry helps students do well on high stakes tests because it gives their minds an exhilarating workout. Poetry inspires students to read more, imagine more, think more, discuss more and write more.
Picture poem
Picture poems offer a visual perspective on the arrangement of words, and are therefore an effective means of encouraging learners to interact with the target vocabulary. By using non-grammatical structures, students can play with the language, producing visual and verbal output. This poem leaves the reader free to make personal (subjective) associations and interpretations.
Picture poems can encourage creativity and experimentation with the target language, helping students to view the use of English as a pleasurable and creative experience.
United States poet laureate Billy Collins said,In times of crisis, its interesting that people dont turn to the novel . . . Its always poetry. Then, he argues that teaching poetry offers some fundamental cognitive and intellectual skills, and that reading a poem replicates the way we learn and think.
HAIKU
Haiku promote brainstorming and collaborative expression, and facilitate expression without the burden of sentence structure. Students are encouraged to see words and short phrases as self-sufficient, and to play with the sounds of the words themselves.
Vocabulary, spelling and dictionary skills can also be focused on, as students search for words describing concepts and impressions. Example: Summer grasses All that remains Of soldiers visions
Any authentic material exposes students to some real English and can be very motivating for a students, provided they are supported throughout the task. The other great thing about poems is for students to have the opportunity to see the language work creatively and freely. Poems can be used in many different ways and
the more you use them the more uses youll find for them.