Using songs in the English teaching at Technological University of Havana

Abstract

This paper is aimed at presenting some activities which were put into practice by using songs during the teaching-learning process of General English II in the second semester of Automatic Engineering major at “José Antonio Echeverría” Technological University of Havana (CUJAE), during 2018-2019 academic year. The activities were designed by taking into consideration the students’ difficulties related to the motivation and interest for learning the English language which hindered their academic performance in classes. The use of songs in the teaching-learning process of General English II contributed to encourage students for learning English in an attractive and interesting way. It also made possible that they acquired and strengthened their linguistic knowledge and develop their communicative skills in the socio-cultural context associated to this language, thus promoting their overall formation as future professionals.