Music and its impact in the teaching and learning process in EFL classrooms

Abstract

The present research project has been designed to determine the impact that music has in the teaching and learning process in EFL classrooms, especially in pronunciation. Music has established its importance when teaching a foreign language for teachers and learners, and it has the power to improve language skills and its features even without being aware of it. This work had a qualitative method and phenomenological research type. For this study, 7 students from a public university in the province of Santa Elena participated as the sample. An interview was applied to discover the benefits of music at the moment of developing students’ language skills and features like pronunciation. The sample affirmed that music has helped them as means to learn some features of the English language such as lexicon, grammar structures and pronunciation. As a result, it was concluded that music can be used to teach and/or develop language skills, especially pronunciation in a more interactive and engaging way to students in the learning environment.