Songs And Music As Tools For Effective Teaching And Learning Of French As Foreign Language In Nigeria

The world of our time is going music wise. Most of the people in the world nowadays are adherents of music. It is no doubt that youths today can be qualified as being considerable addicted to music as they can barely do nothing without it. Many young ones and even some adults inclusive are inclined to listening to music than for them to read novels or books. Their areas of interest on daily life’s activities could be much more concentrated on recreations and music. Some are addicted to music to the extent that they could hardly perform any task a day without music. In view of this, in order to attract or support learners’ learning sensation, songs and music can be effective and beneficial tools to teach French language to our students with great pleasure. Considering the advantages of these tools will help in looking into how the learners could be motivated by them to develop some skills in foreign (French) language’s linguistic structures through melodious songs. In this paper, we have anticipated to delve into how the use of songs and music can help learners improve in developing the four linguistic skills (oral and written expressions as well as oral and written comprehension), reflect culture and increase their feeling of pleasure in learning French language.