Yesterday I put up a post about the types of songs published for language learning which I now regret. It was written in the heat of the moment in reaction to hearing one song and I apologise to anyone I might have offended.
Since I started writing this blog I have wanted to post things that encourage and help colleagues. In particular I love to encourage anyone doing anything creative with their pupils as I believe this gives us the most satisfaction in our jobs and gives our pupils some of the best lessons they could have.
Music and songs are such a personal thing. What I might dislike, others will embrace with enthusiasm and exploit brilliantly. So I apologise for implying that I had the monopoly on good taste in this regard, in fact I rather cringe that I could have implied it.
I want to applaud and support anyone using anything to further the use of music and song in language learning. Most importantly I want to work with colleagues to do this to the best of our ability.
The only thing I would gently encourage all interested in this area to consider is that I do believe the quality of the music is very important and it is a factor that hasn't really been addressed before I think.
So, humble pie amply consumed, I hope that you will bear with me and continue to share your own great ideas about how to make this work as best as we can for the benefit of language teachers across the world who kindly stop by this blog.
