On Pop Songs With Secondary Language Teaching

Since the new curriculum reform, new teaching ideas and new curriculum recourses have emerged continuously. Chinese language teaching is not only to make good use of curricular resources but also the excellent extra-curricular recourses. Almost all the curriculum recourses originate from the traditional elite culture while the extra-curriculum recourses include rich popular culture in various forms. If the popular culture is the yet-to-be-developed high-grade mine of language teaching recourses, pop songs should be regarded as the largest and most valuable un-carving stone of this mine. Pop song is composed of lyrics and music and its lyrics have literary characteristics of poetic style. The perfect combination of lyrics and music turns pop song into poem which could be sung. Pop song is closely related with the students'daily life, thus the influence of pop song on students should not be ignored. This thesis aims to investigate middle school teachers and students'attitudes towards pop song, extensively collect pop songs with healthy content and beautiful lyrics as well as analyze the useful ingredients of them and then try to integrate these ingredients with language teaching. This thesis focuses on discussing the application of pop song to writing, reading and oral communication teaching.