Sing Your English is a Goducate extracurricular program for schools that uses songs as the main tool in teaching English. Sing Your English was conceptualized last year and launched in two schools in Batam, Indonesia, in August this year.
In the Sing Your English method, if the topic of the lesson is Myself, then a song about “Me” is taught to them, along with some writing, drawing, or coloring activity. If the lesson is about Basic Parts of the Body, then the song will contain the relevant vocabulary and will be supplemented by the appropriate activity.
Sing Your English is quite effective because the students can remember the songs and can be heard humming them unconsciously out of class. Starting a class by singing songs learnt is a fun and easy way of reviewing previous lessons. Singing the songs with action helps students remember the meaning of words.
Sing Your English is an extracurricular program, so there are no examinations and gradings, which reinforces the fun and activity aspect of learning English. This would help change the mind-set that English is difficult to learn.
The Sing Your English program is not confined to teaching vocabulary. The students also learn conversational English, because during class they are taught and made to practice simple phrases, as well as the names of objects they commonly come across.
The testing of the program will be intensified next week at our first Sing Your English two-day camp to be held for students in their last year of primary school.