기초영어 과정에서 영어 팝송에 대한 대학생들의 반응

College Students' Responses of English Popular Songs in Basic English Course

It’s not difficult to find studies about English learning with English songs for young children or lower grades who enjoy to sing the songs regardless of languages. In that sense, most people commonly think that English pop songs will be useful or helpful for learning English. Nevertheless, there still remain questions of whether college students or adults sing pop songs very well without language barrier like young children do. Therefore, this paper was conducted to investigate college students’ responses of English pop songs in connection with English learning – listening, speaking, reading, grammar, and vocabulary. The study was held 2 times in 2-year college located in the east part of Geonggi-do. Participants were 81 students in the first and 74 students in the second in basic English classes. English pop songs were presented about 15 minutes during the end of each class. In this study, six case studies are introduced: 김진성, 강문구, 2013; 이헬렌계순, 2013; Carmen Cheong-Clinch, 2009; Yi-Chun Chen & Pi-Ching Chen, 2009; Paola X. Romero, 2017; Swasti Nourmawati, 2012. Data collections are by means of questionnaire surveys created by author. The each questionnaire survey uses a five-point Likert type scale. In the first surveys, the students’ positive responses of the English pop songs were diminished at the end of the course even though they were pretty high before starting the course. In the second surveys, however, the results of the survey after course were more positive than the one before the course. To conclude, the difference of the results between the first and the second survey were depend on frequency, familiarity, and learning method of English pop songs