The Role of Using Educational Songs in Primary Schools to Enrich Pupils’ English Vocabulary The Case of Third-Year Primary School Pupils at Mila, Algeria

Abstract

Learning a new vocabulary items is a big challenge for pupils. The teachers may provide their pupils with a satisfactory stock of vocabularies but the problem is that teachers do not provide it with an effective techniques and strategies. The present study investigates the effect of using educational songs in teaching vocabulary to third primary pupils. More precisely, the study investigates the impact of educational songs on pupil‟s vocabulary learning in Mila city primary schools. It aims at providing an overview of educational songs concepts and illustrates its use in the context of teaching vocabulary. Therefore, we hypothesize that the use of the educational songs would enhance the vocabulary acquisition among young pupils. To conduct the planned objectives of the present investigation we opted for a descriptive approach, which comprises two data tools; a teacher‟s questionnaire which targetes primary teachers (n=15) in different schools in Addition, a classroom observation supposes to be done in ben “Amer Mahfoud Primary School in Oued Al Athmania which targets primary pupils (n=30) but it was not completed due to the pupil‟s exams. The findings indicate that the use of English educational songs as a technique of teaching vocabulary is effective in helping pupils inquiring vocabulary. So the findings reveals that the use of educational songs can yield a better understanding of the concept being learned by shifting focus from theory towards practice inside the classroom.