The Impact of Background Music Teaching on the Accuracy and Fluency of College Student Oral English in China

Guang Shi; MEI Jingyi

doi:10.31686/ijier.vol3.iss6.385

Authors

Guang Shi
MEI Jingyi

Nanjing Normal University, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol3.iss6.385

Keywords:

background music teaching, oral English, accuracy, fluency

Abstract

This paper studies the impact of background music teaching on the accuracy and fluency of oral English of university students. It is found that: 1). Overall, background music teaching can effectively facilitate the accuracy of oral English of the students. Specifically, compared with conventional teaching methods, background music teaching can better help the students reduce syntactic and morphological errors in their oral output, but does not show any advantage in reducing the students’ lexical errors. 2). Compared with conventional teaching methods, background music teaching can better promote the fluency of oral English of the students. 3). Although background music helps to lower the affective filter, it may not be able to help the students to get more comprehensible input. On the contrary, background music plays a more facilitating role in students’ oral output.

Author Biography

MEI Jingyi, Nanjing Normal University, China

School of Foreign Languages and Cultures

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