Enhancing EFL Learners’ Mastery of Suprasegmentals via English Songs

Abstract

The study at hand explores the pragmatic use of English songs in teaching English suprasegmentals to EFL students. Indeed, the stress-timed pattern of

English often turns the task of teaching suprasegmentals into a  mesh. Among the techniques that an EFL teacher may have recourse to in order to dismantle this suprasegmentals mesh is through the use of English songs. In order to prove the aforementioned point, two tests were administered to 30 licence students of English at the University of Mostaganem. The first test involves producing normal speech utterances to check sentence stress application while the second test involves listening to an English song and reproducing some of its passages. The findings of the study indicate that the use of English songs helps EFL learners enhance their mastery of English suprasegmentals since the musical rhythm of songs assists EFL learners in identifying and eventually mastering the suprasegmentals of English