LEITE, Vicente Obede Quental.
Abstract:
The advent of globalization has brought considerable advances to the teaching tools,
especially as far as foreign languages are concerned. Among these tools, music continues to
be one of the most effective means of teaching English, because it carries strong cultural traits
of the peoples and nations from which it originates, precisely because each people inserts their
own characteristics into each musical expression produced, whether they are lyrics, melody or
even in the instruments used in the production of their art. Thus, it is possible to present such
aspects during language teaching, since, there are many nations where English is the first
language, second or most spoken language, becoming part of local customs. In this sense, the
main objective of this work is to observe the relevance of the use of music as a tool for
teaching English language culture, focusing not only on the most known countries that have
English as their first language, but also emphasizing other nations of other continents. And as
specific purposes, we have: 1. Identify how this genre can be used in the classroom; 2. Reflect
on the effectiveness of culture learning in using it; 3. Indicate possible differences regarding
the objectives of its specific use. It is a bibliographical research, analytical-descriptive, carried
out through literature review and analysis of lyrics, which results will be analyzed in a
qualitative way. The research is based on authors such as Hall (2006), Mendes (2012), Shin
(2017), Costa (2018), among others. It is hoped that it will contribute academically, with
respect to pointing out the contributions of music in the teaching of English-language culture,
as well as in the discovery and evidence of other teaching tools, emphasizing the social and
cultural aspects of the use of the language, not only as a means of communication, but also as
an inherent part of the culture of a civilization.
