2019 Volume 23 Pages 49-59
The purpose of this research is to develop teaching materials for singing that allow students to perceive and feel the linguistically distinctive characteristics of words. Moreover, it is hoped the materials can be used to introduce singing lessons in foreign languages at high schools, and make clear their effectiveness in an actual classroom setting.
The teaching materials have been created to emphasize the familiarity, the ease with which to feel the linguistically distinctive phonological vibrancy, and the availability of the sound quality of languages. The materials use the lyrics of the melody of the existing canon of 8 bars in five different languages - English, Italian, German, French and Japanese - titled “Let's sing in various languages”.
As a result of analysis and verification of the lessons using these teaching materials, their effectiveness has been recognized in two ways : (1) the teaching materials allow students to tackle the pronunciation of and feel a sense of familiarity with foreign languages while singing in them, and (2) the teaching materials allow students to perceive and feel the distinctive phonological vibrancy of foreign languages when comparing the languages.
As stated above, the effectiveness of the developed teaching materials has been confirmed for the purpose of research.
