1. Music and English teachers working together can help English language students improve their pronunciation through rhythm, stress, and intonation exercises.
2. Practicing these exercises frequently and in a fun way will help students develop their speaking skills faster and feel more comfortable speaking English.
3. Both teachers should plan and practice the exercises together at the start of the year to make the learning process most effective.
1. Music and English teachers working together can help English language students improve their pronunciation through rhythm, stress, and intonation exercises.
2. Practicing these exercises frequently and in a fun way will help students develop their speaking skills faster and feel more comfortable speaking English.
3. Both teachers should plan and practice the exercises together at the start of the year to make the learning process most effective.
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1. Music and English teachers working together can help English language students improve their pronunciation through rhythm, stress, and intonation exercises.
2. Practicing these exercises frequently and in a fun way will help students develop their speaking skills faster and feel more comfortable speaking English.
3. Both teachers should plan and practice the exercises together at the start of the year to make the learning process most effective.
1. Music and English teachers working together can help English language students improve their pronunciation through rhythm, stress, and intonation exercises.
2. Practicing these exercises frequently and in a fun way will help students develop their speaking skills faster and feel more comfortable speaking English.
3. Both teachers should plan and practice the exercises together at the start of the year to make the learning process most effective.
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Music and languages the perfect match.
Edna Yahaira Pérez Sal
ABSTRACT and de-stress syllables, the stress
syllables are said approximately at English teachers have had at least one regular intervals meanwhile the student with a poor pronunciation unstressed o de-stressed ones are level, it is because English is a stress- said shorter and weaker, in order to timed language that means rhythm is accommodate the regular beat of the stress or the English rhythm. (Simple a fundamental part of the language English Videos,2016) pronunciation. English and Spanish language have differences in rhythm, stress and intonation, this causes that MUSIC TEACHER ROLE Spanish speakers who study English Language have problems with In order to stimulate students to pronunciation and make to get the develop rhythm skills, it is recommended that music teachers English proper accent very difficult. teach them how to discriminate Learn by practicing rhythm, pitch, sounds, how pitch can be managed, intonation and stress exercises will practice with student exercises to make learning process better and acquire rhythm to talk in their native students will acquire a better language. This way they can be able pronunciation of English language. to adapt those exercises to any other rhythm of language. One of the Music and English teachers working exercises that is recommended for together will make this process easier teachers to apply is to imitate sounds for English language students, since and rhythms, also they can sing short Music teacher facilitates students songs with the students and play with exercises to improve rhythm the speed of the song, that means they acquisition and stimulates the ear to can sing the song from the slowest to get new rhythm and the voice to imitate the fastest, this will help students to stress and intonation. When students develop abilities to imitate and follow start practicing same exercise in and pronounce clearly. (Cua. H, English course will be easier to personal Communication, September achieve the goal, because they 5, 2018) already have the skill developed. Remarkable differences have been noticed in students who follow that ENGLISH TEACHER’S ROLE procedure. English teachers will be able to adapt Key words: Pitch, rhythm, intonation, the Spanish activities to English, such stress, stimulation, music, practice. as the imitation of the rhythm of a song in English, by applying “stress DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOPIC Humming” students will learn the rhythm of English, they will be able to English is a stress-timed language discriminate sounds and make the which means it is composed of stress difference between the content words and function words. In this way 2- Practicing rhythm, stress and students learn that in English language intonation exercises frequently will depending on what the speaker wants make the students develop speaking to transmit the words will be stressed skills faster in the learning process. or de-stressed. 3- Teaching English language is a very The “repeat after me” exercise can be complex process it must be taught practiced in different ways, such as completely, giving students not just playing a native speaker’s grammar rules but funny and helpful conversation and students should pronunciation exercises. imitate it, by doing this students will be able to follow the pattern of strong and RECOMMENDATIONS weak stress of syllables or words in the conversation because short and long 1- Music and English teacher should pronunciation gives English its rhythm. plan together the rhythm, stress and intonation activities in order to make A non-native English speaker or the process effective. syllable-timed speaker needs to learn and master the rhythm of English 2- Music and English teacher should because if the English language practice the rhythm, stress and students learn the rhythm of the intonation activities in the beginning of language, it will be easier to the scholar year. understand him when he speaks and also it will make English language 3- English teacher should facilitate student feels comfortable when students activities in order for them to speaking the language. (XansWorld, improve their pronunciation and feel 2010) more comfortable speaking the language. Practicing the rhythm exercises in a fun way and doing it frequently will E-GRAPHY make English language students Simple English Videos(2016, May 30) Stress perform a better role in the English Timing and Rhythm in Sentences: Learn English with Simple English Videos - ESL language acquisition process. (Video File) Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J88mknD kO8g XansWorld(2010,January 24) Syllable-Timed vs. Stress-Timed Languages (Video File) Retrieved from CONCLUSIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUMM5e Cvi8w 1- When Music and English courses are integrated, it is reached an appropriate level of pronunciation.