Using music to foster listening comprehension in eighth grade students of Corazón de María high school

Abstract

This project has been developed in order to demonstrate how listening comprehension can be fostered through the use of music in the EFL classroom. Music has become an important tool at the moment of teaching a new language, for both teachers and learners. Through music, all the linguistic skills can be fostered, but especially the listening skill. This work also describes all the benefits of the use of music in the classroom. In the same way, it provides some useful listening comprehension activities through music that can be incorporated in our methodology as teachers of a foreign language. Besides, in order to carry out this work, a questionnaire and an interview were conducted to give a better understanding of this research. In conclusion, this study supports the use of music in the classroom and shows how the use of music in the classroom makes a big contribution to improving the listening comprehension skill.