Books and Papers about Using Songs in EFL

This list is maintained by Brian Cullen. Please get in touch if you have further suggestions.

Books

  1. Adamowski, E. (1997). The ESL songbook. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
  2. Griffee, D.T. (1992). Songs in action. Herfordshire, England: Phoenix ELT.
  3. Cullen, B. (1999). Songs in the Discussion Classroom. Unpublished masters thesis.
  4. Murphey, T. 1992. Music and Song. Oxford University Press.

Papers

  1. Brown, S. and Helegesen, M. 1986. Stories Into Songs ... Into Stories. The Language Teacher 10/10.
  2. Buck, R.M. and Axtell, T.L. 1986. Music and Foreign Languages : Complementary Fields of Endeavor. The Language Teacher 10/10.
  3. Cullen, B. (1999). Song Dictation. The Internet TESL Journal.
  4. Cullen, B. (2000). Using Songs in Learner-Designed Materials. The Language Teacher 24:2 pp.53-54.
  5. Cullen, B. (1999). Songs in Learner-Designed Materials. Between the Keys, 7:2, pp. 4-5, 16-18. Published in June 1999.
  6. Cullen, B. (1998). Music and Song in Discussion. The Internet TESL Journal, October 1998.
  7. Cullen, B. (2005c). Songwriting in the Classroom. Conference presentation on October 8 at JALT2005, Japan.
  8. Domoney, L. & Harris, S. (1993). Justified and ancient: Pop music in EFL classrooms. ELT Journal, 47, 234-241.
  9. Eken, D. K. (1996). Ideas for using pop songs in the English language classroom. English Teaching Forum, 34, 46-47.
  10. Frith, S. 1987. Why do Songs have Words? In : Lost in Music : Culture, Style and the Musical Event. Ed. White, A.L.Sociological Review Monograph 34. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  11. Little, J. (1983). Pop and rock music in the ESL classroom. TESL Talk, 14, 40-44.
  12. Murphey, T. 1990. Song and Music in Language Learning. European University Studies, Series XI, Vol. 422, Peter Lang.
  13. Saricoban, A. & Metin, E. (October 2000). Songs, Verse and Games for Teaching Grammar. The Internet TESL Journal.
  14. Schoepp, K. (2001). Reasons for Using Songs in the ESL/EFL Classroom. The Internet TESL Journal.

Textbooks Using Songs

  1. Kanel, K.R. 1995. Pop Song Listening. Sebido.
  2. Kumai, N. and Timson, S. 1998. Hit Parade Listening. Macmillan.