Songs The Brain and Proficiency in Second Language Instruction

Every day teachers of French as a Second Languagedeal with the challenges of error correction in theclassroom. Although it is natural for students of allages to make many errors as they learn Frenchteachers find error correction a complex anddifficult task. Many well known second languageresearchers have observed that lack of systematicapproaches for attending to student errors contributeto less than optimal levels of proficiency in French.As well there is a lack of resources to helpteachers deal with this problem. The purpose of thisstudy was to determine the effectiveness of asystematic approach based on songs to prevent orcorrect errors in French as a Second Languageinstruction. It shows the substantive significance ofthe students' gains in achievement in French as aSecond Language. Therefore this book willsupport educators by providing current research asystematic approach to error correction a motivatingand empowering way for students to learn Frenchthrough songs and suggestions based on brain-basedlearning and a multipleintelligence approach to help teachers organize avariety of learning tasks for their students.