Experience report: vocabulary acquisition through the usage of music with kids from three to five years old in three bilingual schools in Fortaleza/CE

Abstract

The study is an experience report that reflects the impact of music in kids’ second language vocabulary acquisition. In this sense, it discusses how students acquired the capacity to perceive, comprehend and reproduce vocabulary, with the exposure to music in a bilingual educational system. To do so, consideration was taken in three years of personal experience teaching young kids in three private schools located in Fortaleza, Ceará. It was possible to conceive the importance of music and its lyrics is a good strategy to stimulate the acquisition of new vocabulary in a second language. It helps manage behavior, mood, provides cultural and language structures input and helps the process of acquiring this new vocabulary. Further research on the same topic can improve the work done here by analyzing and focusing on a bigger sample of songs and centering attention to other linguistic aspects besides vocabulary, such as pronunciation