Learning a new language does not have to feel rigid or overwhelming, and music can be one of the most natural ways to make it ...

Is popular music getting dumber? Yesterday, a study released by Andrew Powell-Morse confirmed what most of us already know: that when it comes to lyrics of hit songs, well, it ain’t exactly ...

A team of researchers conducted a quantitative meta-analysis to examine the effect that teaching with English songs has on L2 vocabulary learning in second and foreign language classrooms. The study ...

RACINE — Heads bobbed, bodies swayed and feet tapped Thursday in Diana Barber’s Johnson Elementary School classroom as rap music blared. Barber’s fifth-graders moved with the beat and then started ...

Whenever I listen to a song, I try to look up the words in the lyrics (at least the ones I can understand!) They seem to come back to me easily whenever I hear the same words or whenever I try to use ...

Marilee Sprenger, author of the book, 101 Strategies To Make Academic Vocabulary Stick, agreed to answer a few questions. Marilee Sprenger is an experienced classroom teacher, educational consultant ...

Hip-Hop has the highest vocabulary among the eighth most popular genres. A research group called Musixmatch did a study comparing the average vocabulary sizes of popular genres. Among hip-hop was folk ...