The Positive and Negative Effects of Popular Music on Kids and Teens

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English for Academic Purpose II Assignment

 The Positive and Negative Effects of Popular Music on Kids and Teens by Robbie O'Sullivan

There are two effects of popular music on kids and teen, they are negative and positive effects. The negative effects of popular music include the invitation to promiscuity such as free sex in teen society, drinking and violence. Those all are recognized by parents, pediatricians, and teachers who are concerned with negative messages of song lyrics which is going to lead teens and kids to negative behavior. And we cannot deny that there are some songs whose lyrics guide kids and teens to the bad moral explicitly or implicitly. Nevertheless, listening music can also be a good thing for them because it is able to guide teens to have good activities. For the examples, teens whose hobby is listening to music, they are interested to play the music instruments and mostly this hobby avoids them from negative and harmful activities. In addition, this hobby can positively influence kids and teens’ emotion. Music can help to stabilize their emotion well because music was designed to that way.

There are some different reasons of girls and boys to listen the music. For teen boys listen to music as entertainment or to seek feelings of excitement and for teen girls this activity is to express themselves and reduce the stress.[1]

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[1] Robbie O’Sullivan,The Positive and Negative Effects of Popular Music on Kids and Teens,2012 https://goo.gl/ksKk9a accessed on 11/29/1016  

Singing Grammar: Teaching Grammar Through Songs (Book review)

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English for Academic Purpose II Assignment

Singing Grammar: Teaching Grammar Through Songs by Mark Hanoock   

(for English for Academic Purpose (EAP) II Assignment)

Singing Grammar[1] is a method that can be used by teachers to teach grammar in the class. It contains two cassettes as supplementary material for use in learning language process. Generally this method is used for three types of learner; elementary student, pre-intermediate student, and for intermediate student. The content of songs should be matched with its student level. This method uses book to accompany the process of learning. At the last pages of this songbook, there are lyrics and chords available to guide student and teacher to play and sing a song in music instruments such as guitar or keyboard.

Learning grammar by using song is effective to be used in language learning process because it motivates. That is the reason why learning grammar by using song should be tried and applied in classroom. Variety in learning method is needed for younger students and song will be able to drive their interested learning grammar.

Furthermore it has other possibilities such as listening, language, and topics. We all agree that listening song can definitely improve our listening skill. And in language possibility, song can be used to enrich student’s vocabulary and pronunciation. In another side, song can be used as an exercise. Student can be asked to do gap-fills, pronunciation drills, etc by using its lyrics.  Learning language by using song also can be a good way because it is easily memorable. In topic aspect, song can provide to be discussed and extension activities. Teacher can use song lyrics to be a basic for story-telling. Its lyrics provide the topic that can be discussion activities in the language class. Singing grammar method cannot use random songs without any consideration. It uses several questions to select suitable songs to be applied in the classroom.    

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[1] Mark Hanoock, Teaching Grammar: Teaching Grammar Through Song, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom:2013.