The influence of music to enhance cultural awareness in foreign language learners.

Abstract

Culture is a factor that is not always considered as part of the process of learning a foreign language. However, culture is a necessary aspect to build assertive communication with people who come from a different cultural background. This qualitative phenomenological research project aims to describe the influence of music to enhance cultural awareness in foreign language learners who use the mentioned resource as a learning tool. Collecting relevant information while applying individual interviews as a collection technique, with a sample of six apprentices who meet the relevant characteristics to be part of this research. These interviews allowed obtaining results related to the relationship between music, culture and language, as well as the strategies used in order to promote cultural awareness and learning. Additionally, they describe their experiences related to the use of music as an effective learning tool, which provides different benefits including the acquisition of vocabulary through the lyrics of the songs and the interest in learning about the culture related to the songs and artists.