Chapter five: results and implications
5.1 Statement of results
As the data of the table show, students as well as teachers
have nearly the same point of views as far as the impact of songs and games in
English Language Teaching is concerned. Nearly all of whom, favour positively
the implementation of songs and games in the English language teaching.
Teachers and students who answered questions in the questionnaires state that
songs and games help a lot in their activities even tough there a certain
number of difficulties they meet from time to time.
5.2 Implications
To wipe away all the problems and difficulties that we face
when using songs and games, we think it necessary to propose recommendations to
teachers of English, to students, to educational authorities and to dear
parents so that in the future English teaching should be more efficient and
constructive.
5.3 Recommendations
5.3.1 Recommendations to teachers
It is really important for teachers to make use of songs and
games in their classes if they really want to promote their students
communicative capacities. We must not lose sight of the fact that when using
songs and games in our classes, we give students sense of self confidence and
it is only by being self-confident can students express themselves freely and
without constraint. It is an imperative to assert that today teachers should
not only worry about the success of their students in exams.
What is important is that the teachers of English should
strain every nerve so that their students use the English language without any
difficulties. This can only be achieved when they are more aware that songs and
games are really an opportunity for them to promote communicative skills.
Accuracy is important in a language but the new trend favours
fluency. Fluency can be developed in the learners of English if the teachers
use songs and games regularly in classes.
5.3.2 Recommendations to students
It is a necessity for students to understand that English is a
language that should not be neglected for so many reasons. If students want
really to have a high command of the language, following his or her teacher in
the daily activities is extremely important. As we show it in the data so many
teachers use songs and games not only to motivate their students, but they also
use them to teach grammar, vocabulary and so on. So, this shows that following
songs and games in class is part of their learning.
Beyond the notion of fun, there are many more important things
with songs and games. This is the very reason why young teachers even old
teachers tend to use them in class more often than not.
It is now up to students to avail themselves to profit by this
opportunity to develop their capacities because in songs and games they can
obtain whatever they want
5.3.3 Recommendations to educational authorities
In the Senegalese context, teaching English under the existing
circumstances can be sometimes very tedious and frustrating for many levels. No
one can deny that in nearly all Senegalese secondary schools there is a
conspicuous lacks of infrastructures and materials aimed at promoting an
efficient teaching. There are so many ordeals that the teachers of English are
faced with today.
If we really want an efficient teaching it is the duty of the
educational authorities to have in mind that without adequate materials there
is nothing that teachers can do. It is their responsibilities to supply books,
tapes, and computers so that people in schools should better rejoice new
technologies.
If you cast a look at schools in rural areas and the CEM of
Keur Momar Sarr is very illustrative, the impression we have is that decent
equipment is quite inexistent and this is a disgusting situation. To better use
songs and games schools are needed to be more equipped in terms tapes,
computers, TV sets and so on.
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