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SONGS: PQ SE USAN CANCIONS?: Blasi and Foley: Children're inherently musical, which's supported by children's eagerness to engage in musical play. Neuman: Pueden mejorar: Can improve children's memory, vocabulary, and creative uses of language. BENEFICIOS Fonseca: Songs for language learning have been considered in relation to the development of the four skills, activation of both hemispheres, memory, motivation and cultural sensitivity. POP SONGS CHARACT: BENEFITS: -Songs provide a natural context for language use. -Songs allow children to pick up chunks of language. -Songs encourage all children, to participate and to speak in class; -Singnin is fun. -Songs, rhymes and chants are natural language behaviour; -Songs make language easy to remember. SONGS CAN BE USED: 1.Review what has been learned; 2.Practise the language; 3.Change the pace and activate the students. TIPOS SONGS Brewster: 1.Action: These songs are closely related to the Total Physical Response method (James Asher) which's based on the idea of learning language through actions and commands. 2.Traditional: Convey foreign customs, helping to pupils to appreciate the English culture. 3.Pop: Pop songs have characteristics that help learning a second language: Short words, Time and place are usually imprecise, The language is conversational. OTHER TYPES: Topic songs(Acquisition of vocabulary); Spelling songs(Used to train alphabet); Songs for special occasions(Which are played for celebrating festivities).