Additionally, being authentic texts themselves, songs provide students with the opportunity of meeting authentic
texts belonging to the target language. According to Schoepp (2001), as they feature examples of daily language,
songs help students get prepared for the language they will encounter in daily life. Besides, as a part of daily life,
they are the tools of informing the students about the culture of the target language. A song is a literary text and
literary texts harbor cultural elements belonging to the language in which they are written.
When the relationship between literary texts and life itself is examined, it is seen that the reality of life and
human conditions in literary texts are narrated by being processed in the inner world of the author. In this regard,
literary texts have a significant role in comprehending human beings and society with their different aspects. In
literary texts written in a foreign language, it is possible to find the reflection of the world of that language, a life
which is stranger to us (Polat, 1993).
In parallel with these views, songs, as a type of literary texts, reflect culture and transmit cultural values between
people, societies and generations. Therefore, while learning a foreign language, a person can learn about a
society and its culture through songs.