E-UTA Project for English Education: Report of Song-making Project for Foreign Language Activities

Abstract

The goal of the current paper is to report a song-making project for Foreign Language Activities at elementary school. A project group ""E-UTA Project"", in which project members make original songs based on teaching materials of Foreign Language Activities, plan lessons with the original songs, and conduct the lessons at elementary schools, organized the activity. The project has made several original songs for Foreign Language Activities with the following concepts; melodies that learners can enjoy, tunes that help learners understand lyrics, and repetitions of target phrases that learners learn through the songs. The project members conducted numbers of lessons with the original songs at elementary schools. Through these lessons, members observed that some learners showed their interests more than they usually showed to what they were learning through the songs.