The Poem-song genre in the English language class: comprehension of lyrical meanings of the sung words

Abstract

This paper highlights the results of research that emphasize the importance of comprehensions about the lyrical senses of sung words through poem-song genre in the English Language class. This study developed aimed to introduce how this kind of textual genre could offer possibilities to students to explorer and talk about their feelings and moral values that have been essential to human character. The focus of this research started about the textual genre poem-song with intention knowing how the students could understand the lyrical senses in sung words, in this way, this study also aimed potentialize the development discursive social practice in English Language classroom considering this kind of textual genre. This qualitative research was applied to high school students based on studies of Thiollent (1986), at Colégio Luís Eduardo Magalhães – Alagoinhas City. This research was based on: the comprehension of senses in dialogical relation (BAKHTIN, 1997; 2003); the conception about textual genres and poem-song (MARCUSCHI, 2002); the studies which relates English Language learning (LAUFER, 1997); the methodological conceptions for development the Didactic Sequence (DS) involving oral and written textual genre (DOLZ, NOVERRAZ and SCHNEUWLY, 2004). Based on these theorical foundations, this poem-song study may contribute as suggestion to redirect and/or enhance discussions about the lyrical meanings of the sung words, offering possibilities to include English Language teaching through expression of the voice feelings who sings.