Teaching English as a foreign language through songs in Primary Education

This Project is focused on teaching English as a foreign language through songs in Primary Education. The project explains different aspects such as children’s learning development like motivation, interaction with the rest of their classmates and linguistic aspects such as lexical, grammatical and pronunciation aspects and their link and improvement by means of using songs. The project also describes a research done in four classes of Year 4 of Primary Education using a song in two of the groups and other non-musical materials and methods in the other two groups. The aim was to contrast the results and verify that the use of songs in English lessons has benefits for children’s learning. Moreover, to develop this mini-project, English teachers filled in a questionnaire sharing their opinion and their approach about song exploitation. In addition, competences and contents from the Primary Education Curriculum are developed throughout the project and the research.