Abstract:

The paper mainly discusses the roles of English songs in English teaching. The paper is made up of five parts. The first part introduces the main idea and the contents of the paper. The second part illustrates the value of English songs and their important role in English learning and teaching. The third part offers a list of classic English songs and illustrates how these songs can help English learners to learn English and the teachers to teach students English effectively. The fourth part illustrates that the English song method is the valuable supplement to the normal textbook teaching method, but the song can't replace the textbook. The last part is the summary of the paper and reiterates the importance and the positive impact of English songs in the English teaching.

Key words: English songs；English teaching

摘  要：

论文主要探讨了英文歌曲对英语教学和学习的作用与影响。该论文由五个部分构成。第一部分主要介绍了该论文的主要观点和内容。第二部分主要阐述了英文歌曲的价值以及对英语教学的重要作用。第三部分列举了一些英文歌曲在教学过程中的实际例子，主要说明了英文歌曲如何有效地运用到英语教学之中。第四部分说明了英文歌曲教学法是对日常书本教学的有益补充，但不能代替课本。最后一部分是对文章的总结，重申了英语歌曲对英语教学的重要意义和积极影响。

关键词：英文歌曲；英语教学

1 Introduction
With the development of reform and opening up policy, English has become more and more important. As a result, more and more Chinese people want to learn English. After many years of teaching reform, English teaching in China has been modernized and more comprehensive English teaching approach has been adopted in schools and colleges. A lot of teaching aids and sources have been put into use in English teaching. Practice shows that English songs can be one of the good teaching auxiliary means(Li Sijie,2005:81-82). If the English songs are used skillfully, the quality of English teaching can be improved. What is more important is that it can stimulate the students’ interest in English learning. Nowadays, quality education has received widespread attention and it plays a positive role in promoting the students' learning ability and cultural quality. The life is filled with the music, so using English songs to learn English is one of the effective ways of English teaching. In English teaching, it is important to arouse the students’ enthusiasm for learning. In addition, English songs can help correct English phonetics and keep what is learned in mind, so they can accumulate via English songs a large vocabulary, learn foreign culture and develop the English pronunciation, intonation and even voice. Taking the music into the English teaching activities has become a trend. The advantages of this teaching method is that by listening to and imitating some English songs sung by the British and American singers can help the students to hear more perfect English pronunciation, pick up words and get used to some patterns and grammar. Of course, sometimes songs could carry away the students and make them less concentrate on learning points on classes. That is to say, they just listen to it but forget the real goal. Sometimes, some classic English songs are too difficult for the students to understand, so the students could fail to complete listening exercises teacher assigned, and then their self-confidence will be affected. In short, the English songs’ teaching in practice still needs a careful exploration. This paper will make a discussion on how English songs can be employed in English learning and teaching to help the students learn English effectively.