Russian Language Journal
USING SONGS TO TEACH AURAL COMPREHENSION IN THE INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM
Keywords
foreign language classroom, linguistic environment, language learners
Abstract
The foreign language classroom is an artificial linguistic environment where the student is usually exposed to structure simplified input in small doses. The result is often a co deficiency in aural comprehension even beyond the beg A number of authors have pointed out that language learners times become more competent at speaking than at understanding native spoken discourse (e.g., Wipf, p. 345). A student understood by a native speaker in spite of mistakes distortions, whereas the reverse is often not the case. Th much more in control of the communicative process as since he or she has the chance to concentrate on what needs to be formulated, select those linguistic forms which are available and produce a message in which he or she has sufficient confidence. As a listener, however, the student is at the mercy of the native speaker's articulation patterns, choice of colloquial or more formal constructions, rate of speech, careful or careless syntax and other potentially problematic features of natural discourse.
Recommended Citation
Tumanov, V., & Tennant, J. (2000). USING SONGS TO TEACH AURAL COMPREHENSION IN THE INTERMEDIATE-ADVANCED FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM. Russian Language Journal, 54(1). https://doi.org/10.70163/2831-9737.1409
