IMPACTS OF ENGLISH POP SONGS ON EFL STUDENT’S ELISIONS LEARNING AT A UNIVERSITY IN THE NORTH OF VIETNAM
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https://doi.org/10.51453/2354-1431/2023/1120Keywords:
Elisions, Cloze-Test, English pop songs, pre-test, post-test.Abstract
The article describes the experimental procedure of teaching English elisions through English pop songs after 8 weeks of testing on 2 groups of learner adolescents learning English for special purpose (EFL), experimental group with 35 freshmen and controlled group with 33 ones. Each group consisted of 30 university freshmen who are enrolling full-time in social majors at a university in the North of Vietnam. Materials for experimental were 8 English pop songs with exercises designed in the form of Cloze-Test exercises on the lyrics. Students listened to music while brainstorming the correct answers containing the connecting sounds. Quantitative method was applied to collect data from pre-test and post-test; Independent Samples Test belongs to ANOVA of SPSS algorithms were used to analyze the data. From the results, the students' improvement of elisions sounds has been demonstrated through the scores from the post-test after the experimental.
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