English has fully demonstrated its advantages and characteristics as the world's first universal language, no matter from the intonation, clear pronunciation, rich vocabulary, clear structure and accurate expression ability.

I remember a famous language educator said, "Learning a foreign language is like attacking a bunker. We should attack it from all directions. " People often complain that they can't learn a foreign language well because they can't find a good language environment. In fact, it's no trouble to conquer the English bunker: reading the original English, learning English textbooks, watching English movies, listening to English speeches, reading English magazines, listening to English songs, and even remembering English words you usually notice ... all of these can accumulate English ability little by little. Until one day, learning English well is really easy.

My research direction is related to a sensitive problem of parents and students, "The influence of listening to English songs on learning".

Many parents think that listening to songs has a bad influence on their children's study, while many students think that listening to their favorite English songs is helpful to their study.

1. Music's help in learning

Although listening to music while studying can sometimes distract people, when they are intoxicated with music, they often forget what they should have done. But music is indeed a science whose advantages far outweigh its disadvantages.

Now I want to explain the influence of music on learning alone.

One of the most prominent functions of music is that it can greatly improve children's math scores. In the field of music and brain research, the most controversial topic is the correlation between music and math scores. 1997 Gordon Joe of Aban College in California and Francis Lavuga of the University of Wisconsin published their research results on how to improve students' math scores on the basis of music training.

This study immediately caused great controversy, and experts had different opinions for a time.

So scientists conducted a series of follow-up experiments and explanations.

(1) The overall learning ability of students who have been trained in piano lessons generally tends to improve. "But the biggest improvement in performance and ability is particularly prominent and obvious in the field of mathematics," said Martin Katina, a professor of psychology at Bulavin University. "There is a vivid and special tacit understanding between music and mathematics."

(2) A research team headed by Dr. Guttery Huraf of Israel Basic Medical Center compared the left and right hemispheres of 30 professional musicians (strings and pianists) with those of 30 ordinary people who had nothing to do with music, and found that the difference between them was amazing-the musicians were counted as one group, and the front of the corpus callosum was obviously very large. Especially for those who have started to learn music before the age of 7, the tendency of extra large corpus callosum is very obvious. The anterior part of the corpus callosum has little relationship with the frontal lobes of the left and right brains, and is mainly used for planning thinking and predicting activities. When muscles are active, the corpus callosum connects with the premotor cortex of the brain and performs pretreatment. "This connection becomes particularly important when the rhythm of music melody is accelerated and extremely fast finger movements are needed," Huraf said.

These scientific explanations show that music does have a "mysterious" influence on learning, and those scientists who conduct experiments can only draw conclusions, but they can't really make a convincing explanation from it-scientists still have a long way to go on the road of studying the brain. The exploration of music function may be far more than that.

Second, the specific help of English songs to English learning

(1), the cultivation of language sense

Listening to English songs often can cultivate students' sense of language. In any language, the sense of language is one of the most important parts: for example, when we see or hear a Chinese sentence, the first thing we think of is not its structural sentence pattern or sentence components, but whether the sentence is readable-we can deal with almost all types of Chinese sentences in this way. In fact, whether it is daily communication or exams, we all do this.

In fact, English is the same. Grammar has been introduced into English textbooks in China for a long time. This is certainly helpful for learning English. Can let us understand the sentence structure more clearly and understand the sentence better. However, its shortcomings are also obvious-premature exposure to a lot of grammar knowledge makes students shift the focus of learning English to grammar knowledge rather than English itself: when students find that they can get good grades in exams as long as they learn grammar knowledge well, they no longer pay attention to the cultivation of English ability, especially the cultivation of English language sense. Taking exams for the sake of exams makes many exams meaningless.

In fact, even if you use it in an exam, the advantage of language sense is very obvious-you don't have to spend time analyzing the structure and sentence patterns of those sentences, and you can write many questions quickly and accurately only by your proficiency in the language.

In daily communication, a sense of language can greatly improve the speed and quality of communication.

Then, often being exposed to the English environment created by English songs can make the brain receive the training of language sense imperceptibly-language sense is also a person's proficiency in language mastery. In English songs, listening to those beautiful English over and over again makes people master many language expressions in a very relaxed environment.

For example, many English pop music lyrics are positive, with a large number of authentic spoken words and their standard pronunciations.

For example, wanna = Want

intend to go to...

No = I'm not or not.

Cause = because

have to

etc

(2) Pronunciation help

The rhythm of songs requires high pronunciation, and the frequent occurrence of conjunctions, skimming and rereading of lyrics has a negative impact on English learners' pronunciation.