The use of Lyrics Training to help students improve their listening skills

Abstract

Abstract: The study The use of Lyrics Training to help students improve their listening skills was carried out with the purpose of determining the influence that the Lyricstraining application has on the improvement of the students listening skills. This study was conducted using a mixed method approach because it contains a qualitative and quantitative data. Additionally, the instruments were a pre-test and a post-test to determine how Lyricstraining changed the listening skill, along with a final survey that would allow to collect the students perceptions. The participants of this research were ten students from different institutions who participated in eight classes that utilized the application as the main resource to learn English. Moreover, the information from the instruments and the data was tabulated and analyzed to answer the research questions. Furthermore, the resulst showed that the Lyricstraining was effective towards the students listening skills, it reinforced semantic understanding, and because music integrated listening along with the rest of the language skills.