VALUES EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PROTEST MUSIC IN ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSES

Abstract

The English language day by day is becoming ever increasingly important in the world. Music in foreign language education can be seen as a helpful method that spontaneously livens the learning atmosphere. In this paper, we are arguing for (the use of) songs that stir and inspire "social change" and that are an "authentic" part of pop culture as being an effective means of teaching English. We recommend that the songs used in this paper be for intermediate and advanced-level students and/or high school students in grade 9 and above. The researcher behind this paper had 18 years of experience teaching English in every sort of institution within the Turkish National Ministry of Education as well as five years of experience of teaching Turkish abroad. The researcher aims to show-through examples-the benefits of using this all-stirring and inspiring protest music in the English language classroom alongside the opportunity within for students to study a county's social movements. Students' renewed enthusiasm as well as what language instruction gains through this enlivened classroom is also defended.