Academic research reveals that the primary exposure to Oral English for Chinese students outside of the classroom is from POP MUSIC!
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Academic research reveals that the primary exposure to Oral English for Chinese students outside of the classroom is from POP MUSIC!
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Why so combative?
This is a quote from your contribution:
'Pop music is probably not the best example of English usage'
Seems pretty generic to me.
There are number of other factors at work when we are teaching - the host culture being one. The expectations of the admin and parents are others.
My 'shoulds' reflect these expectations as do commercial realities like music royalties.
Jeffrey Raven said:
I think rejecting generic pop is too broad brush. The music should meet other criteria.
For example:
It should bounce along and not be a mixture of turgid verse and singable chorus.
It should be optimistic in tone.
It should be free of overt sexual references.
It should be relatively neutral from a gender viewpoint. Boys should not feel they are singing a 'girls' part and vice versa.
This is worth reading.
http://iteslj.org/Articles/Schoepp-Songs.html