Songs provide opportunities for
real language use
According to Sharpe (2001), songs provide
an occasion for real language use in a fun and
enjoyable situation. She claims that singing is
a vital part of the life of a young child, inside
and outside the school, and incorporating the
foreign language into this fundamental activity
is another way of normalizing it. Young
children readily imitate sounds and often
pleasurably associate singing and playing with
rhythms and rhymes from an early age.
Schoepp (2001) believes that the following
three patterns emerge from the research
on why songs are valuable in the ESL/EFL
classroom: