Open AccessLudic and Cultural Space for Beginner English Learners: Studying the Hippie Movement Songs and Lyrics
Author(s) -
Rigoberto Castillo,
María Camila Garay Agudelo,
Paula Segura Soto
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
papeles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2346-0911
pISSN - 0123-0670
DOI - 10.54104/papeles.v9n18.489
Subject(s) - lyrics , subject (documents) , linguistics , context (archaeology) , qualitative research , space (punctuation) , comprehension , expression (computer science) , foreign language , sociology , movement (music) , psychology , pedagogy , history , aesthetics , literature , art , computer science , anthropology , programming language , philosophy , archaeology , library science
This article reports a qualitative action research study on the contribution of using songs and lyrics to integrate cultural understanding and language development in an English as a foreign language (EFL) class at a middle school. We observed that our learners had difficulty to understand and express themselves in English. The social and cultural context of the late 1960’s Hippie movement was the subject of the study through songs and lyrics. We offer our readers the most relevant literature and a synthesis of research reports on the subject to invite them to deepen in this topic. The findings of this qualitative study suggest that culture contextualized language and enhanced comprehension facilitates oral expression in EFL.