Structural Phrases In Miss Pilita Corrales Songs: A Syntax Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to identify the different Structural phrases present in Miss Pilita Corrales Cebuano songs; a syntax analysis. This study aims to identify the different phrases as follows Noun Phrase Prepositional Phrase, Verb Phrases, Adverbial Phrase and Adjectival Phrase. During the last few years English has become a really important tool in order to succeed professionally in our society; it is the language for business, research, public relations and the Internet. For this reason, teachers are looking for better strategies to teach this subject. In this study we implemented songs because doing so was an interesting resource used by English teachers and by teachers of other subjects. In fact, they have used songs as a resource to develop communicative abilities properly in a foreign language, providing students with the opportunity to talk with confidence and giving teachers the chance to teach in a fun way. For those reasons, we decided to focus on using songs to encourage sixth graders to develop English speaking skills while having two main objectives: To explore different alternatives for exploiting songs in the English class. To examine students’ oral production when taking part in activities that involves songs in English.

Keywords: Phenomenology, Vocabulary, Phrase, TGG