Singing Grammar: Teaching grammar through song
Language is a means of communication that is used to transfer
information, ideas, and feelings from one person to another. It is used to
communicate both in written and spoken form. Considering the importance of the
language, our government has drawn up English as a foreign language that should
be mastered by the students. In Indonesia, English teaching aims at mastering
four basic skills of language, which include listening, speaking, reading, and
writing skills. Nowadays, based on our newest curriculum that is 2013
Curriculum, the students are expected to master those four skills in order to
be able to use English communicatively. The aim of 2013 Curriculum will not be
successfully achieved if the language teaching does not consider the language
components such as grammatical structure, vocabulary, spelling, and
pronunciation. Therefore, grammar needs to be mastered by the students since it
is the basic rule of language.
But the problem is, it was found that many students still had
difficulties in mastering grammar. English teacher tended to teach the grammar
deductively. The teacher taught giving
by giving a note on the whiteboard, gave some examples, and then asked
the students to take a note. After that the students were only given limited
time to do some exercises. Here the students easily felt bored of the teaching
methods since there was no interesting and attractive activity involved in
their learning process.
Furthermore, the students
also often thought that learning grammar was difficult. This assumption made
the students afraid and not motivated to study. As a result, most of the
students were afraid to ask the points that they did not understand to the teacher.
This situation made the students passive in their learning process. The
students’ enthusiasm was much related to the technique used by the teacher in
transferring the lesson. The students would become not interested in learning
if the technique used was monotonous. It made the learning process not
effective. Based on that statement, English teachers should think critically in
order to find creative approach in teaching grammar so that the students will
take much participation during the learning process. One of the creative
approaches in teaching English grammar
is singing grammar: teaching grammar through song. Here is the book about teaching grammar through song. "Download here".
Written by Ummy Khoirunisya' Masyhudianti
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