Students' autonomy has always been a hot issue for educators and parents. Study lack of autonomy is inefficient. A good way to improve students' autonomy is to combine their interests and learning objectives. For L2 learners who enjoy music,
lyricstraining is an effective tool to realize autonomy improvement.
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What is lyricstraining?
Lyricstraining is a
lyrics-dictation tool. Users need to write down the missing lyrics when listen to songs. With this website, learners can study language and enjoy music at the same time.
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How to use lyricstraining?
⏩ First, choose the song you like. You can choose any music you like of different genres and languages.
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⏩ Second, choose the game mode you fit. It has
four different difficult degrees which have different numbers of missing words. For example, if we choose Ed Sheeran's
Perfect, we will see four game modes. Beginner mode require learners to fill 29 random words of 286, which account for ten percent of the total lyrics. And the gaps we need to fill in intermediate mode and advanced mode respectively accounts for 25% and 50%. As for the most challenging mode: Expert, learners need to fill all the lyrics. Users may act according to their own present level to choose. Proper level can maximize the learning effect of lyricstraining.
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⏩ Third, give it a go!
Press the button to start the game. If you can not fill the gap, the video will automatically pause. And you will have some time to think before game over.
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Why do I strongly recommend lyricstrainging?
💙 Plenty options for users to choose from: people can choose language, songs and game modes at the same time.
💙 The combination of music and study ensures learning autonomy.
💙 Users can learn words, phrases and oral expressions with it.
Hope this tool will be a help for your learning. Any comments on it or other recommendations of language study autonomy aids are welcomed in the comments below.
Hello, Bonnie!!! I like your kind explanation and review. I like this site. I used to learn English with songs, and still I am enjoy listening to music. Were there any limitations? What I found is that site does not offer any Chinese or Korean songs. 🙁
ReplyDeleteBonnie you have explained the steps of using this tool so clearly and in detail. That's so lovely for beginners. But do you think althogh it is so perfect, it still have some limitations.
ReplyDeleteHello, Bonnie. I love the colourful words in your posts which makes your words vivid and friendly!! Your subtitles are convenient for me to navigate!
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