Lyric Training

Improve your foreign language skills through musics

Lyrics Training is a fun approach for language learning. It aims to sharpen learners' language skills through music and song lyrics. 


In this language game, students need to read and listen to the lyrics, and then fill in the gaps of the song's lyrics appear underneath a Youtube video. 

Features:

1. free. 
2. songs are offered in 7 different languages (Dutch, English, France, German, Italy, Portuguese and Spanish)
3. Score reading is displayed after the you finish playing the songs.

To use Lyrics Training: 

1. Choose your preferred YouTube-hosted music video
2. Select one of three mastery levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert.
   *The level of difficulty decides how many words that go missing 
3. Fill in the missing words as the video begins to play.
   *The video will stops playing if you get stumped. It will resume after you come up with the right word. Click "withdraw" or "restart" button if the words elude you. 

Now you can have a try at http://www.lyricstraining.com/

How to use Lyrics Training in language classroom?

1. To introduce new vocabulary and grammar

• Song is a form of creative writing text. Undeniably, it is enriched with vocabulary and grammar which is useful for language learning. Teacher may elicit the language patterns in a song and teach students 

2. To practise listening skills

• In this language game, students need to pay attention to the song in order to identify the right words to fill in the gaps. At the same time, students may also learn the correct pronunciation of the words.  

3. To held a spelling game

• Teacher can select a suitable song, which is not so often heard by the learners, as the song for competition. Student, who scores the highest point and complete the gaps in the shortest time, win the game. 

The advantages of Lyrics Training

1. It get students to be engrossed in language learning

• Lyrics Training is a fun and easy tool for learning language. Students can listen to the songs they fancy while doing the filling the gap game. This triggers students' interest; therefore, they can be seen more engaging and  motivated in language learning. 

2. It promotes autonomous learning

• Lyrics Training is a tool whereby students can apply on their own. Teacher does not have to supervise or intervene. Independent learning is, therefore, fostered as students may use the tool to practise their language skills anytime and anywhere they like according to their own learning pace. 

3. A more interacting way of doing fill in the gaps exercise

• Unlike the conventional form of paper-based fill in the gap exercise, Lyrics Training offers students to do the same exercise electronically. Additionally, the tool can tell students if the answers they provide are right or wrong.  

The limitations

1. Certain songs may contain inappropriate or negative content for targeted students.

2.  Some songs use colloquial language, like 'wanna', 'gonna', 'gotta', etc which might be an inappropriate language forms for language learners.

3. Proper earphones or headphones are needed for classroom learning so as to give learners a clearer audio listening.