Uluslararası Eğitim Programları ve Öğretim Çalışmaları Dergisi

Yazarlar: İshak Ersin Kıraç, Altay Eren

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Anahtar Kelimeler: Atonal chord,Tonal chord,Music,Harmony,Foreign language teaching

Özet: Abstract The effects of using tonal and atonal chord sequences on elementary schools students’ English sentence structure learning were examined in the present study. A total of 42 third-grade elementary school students voluntarily participated in the study. A pre-test and post-test with control group quasi-experimental design formed the design of the study. In experimental groups and control group, students were taught past tense structure during four-lesson phases. Lessons were taught through the current activities in English language lesson curriculum such as repeating and fill in the blanks in control group; whereas, in addition to these, they were taught either through a song played with atonal-chord or a song played with tonal-chord in experimental groups. Students’ learning rates regarding the sentence structure in English were assessed via the “Sentence Structure in English Multiple-Choice Test”, originally developed in the study. Findings showed that teaching the topic through a song played with atonal-chord was significantly more effective than teaching the topic both through tonal-chord version of the song and the current curricular activities only. Findings also showed that teaching English sentence structure to students through a song played with tonal-chord was not more effective than teaching the same topic through the current curricular activities only.

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