MEETING 1

 Name: Harevsa ☺

Class: Literature in ELT (B) 

The Use of Poetry/Songs in Teaching/Learning English According to my personal perspective, teaching English is quite challenging to make attractive activities so as to create the atmosphere to make the learners not feel boredom. Song and poetry are useful tools and fun activities to teach the language. The main purpose of learning English with songs is to make the students learn by listening, repeat and to develop communication skills. When properly planned, applied, and evaluated, a song has the potential to increase memory, understanding the essence of the story of the music and to get a new vocabulary more effectively and language structures. However poetry is a written art that contains aesthetics language, and beautiful words with deep meaning. The ability to analyze poetry can help students to create and convey their thoughts (critical thinking). The task of finding an object to use as a source of inspiration for poetry writing the students can participate in this writing exercise by using both inside and outside of the classroom for inspiration the object is instructed at this level to be perceptive and receptive to both living and nonliving things around them. Mittal (2014) explains that poetry offers many opportunities for language teaching and practice. It gives a wide change of learning vocabulary and structure. 

Sources: Samanik, S. (2018) Teaching English Using Poetry: An Alternative to Implement Contextual Teaching and Learning: An Alternative to Implement Contextual Teaching and Learning. JER 2018, 3, Page 21-28. 

Džanić, Nihada. (2016) The Effect of Using Songs On Young Learners and Their Motivation for Learning English, Volume 1, Issue 2, pp. 40-45.