Keywords. Misunderstanding, approaches and methods, memory, natural rhythms, innovative and
interactive.
Аннотация. Использование песен для обучения лексике - любимое занятие студентов.
Студенты лучше учатся с помощью инновационных и интерактивных методов, чем учатся по
учебникам.
Ключевые слова. Непонимание, подходы и методы, память, естественные ритмы,
новаторские и интерактивные.
Since the early days of independence, our government has been focusing on the development of
education including world languages so as to disseminate barriers and misunderstandings among the
world. Hence, there have been huge responsibilities on the teachers’ shoulder of foreign languages.
In order to enlarge the knowledge of learners, teachers and tutors teach them all integrated skills
simultaneously. One of the main aims of teaching English has been related to vocabulary as it is
considered as essential part of obtaining knowledge.
In one of his speeches Islam Karimov pointed: “Education and upbringing, while being the product
of consciousness, are the factors which define the level of consciousness and development. Without
improving the system of education and upbringing one cannot alter the consciousness, and by not
altering the consciousness, and consequently the mind, it would be impossible to achieve our highest
goal-to build a free and prosperous society”.
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The reason for choosing the topic named ‘Using songs for teaching vocabulary” is that effective
approaches and methods of teaching vocabulary have always been under the consideration so that
learners use easier and more effective ways of learning the language.
The very first definition which should be presented in the beginning of this thesis is that of vo-
cabulary. Unquestionably, it is not easy to explain such a wide term for the reason there are different
definitions of vocabulary and various authors see them in a different way, the following part deals
with three definitions.
To begin with, Ur writes that: “vocabulary can be defined, roughly, as the words we teach in the
foreign language”.
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However, she points out that word is inadequate to describe the phrase vocabu-
lary. There are plentiful examples in which more than one word is used to represent an idea, for ex-
ample mother-in-law, record shop. In these words, there are two or three words used, but still, they
present one concept. Next, the author also enumerates multi-word idioms, for instance call a day,
in which the meaning is not possible to conjecture only by knowing the meaning of given words.
Therefore, we cannot talk about vocabulary alone in terms of words. Ur finally suggests talking about
vocabulary ‘items’ rather than ‘words’.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said that ‘Without music life would be a mistake’. Let me rephrase
this sentence: without music English class may not be a mistake, but it would be less entertaining, fun
and memorable.
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Songs have long been recognized as fun and child-friendly tools in both first and
second language acquirement. According to Murphy, one of the important characteristics of music
and songs for language learning is the fact that it seems to be easier to sing language than to speak it.
He also claims that nowadays, it is almost impossible to escape music and songs. Music can be found
everywhere, in operating theatres, in shopping malls, in restaurants and cafés, at sport events, in our
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I.A.Karimov. Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan №1875.Tashkentin her
, December 10,2012
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Penny Ur , A practical guide for teaching vocabulary,1990:60
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, On the future of our Educational Institutions.
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