Giving shy children a voice: How ELT and educational songs can empower shy learners

One of the beautiful things about music is its ability to bring us out of ourselves. 

We have all experienced a moment when an infectious melody takes us over and we can’t hold back from bursting into song. Whatever is going on neuronally in those moments, it’s incredible to think that as humans our connection to music runs so deep that it can be enough to outweigh the burden of self-consciousness we all carry to a greater or lesser extent.

Similar effects can be seen in group music settings: concerts, festivals, choirs. Music cultivates social bonding through shared enjoyment and neurobiological syncing, enabling anxieties to temporarily fade into the background. 

Music’s ability to reanimate patients with Parkinson’s, the preservation of musical muscle memory in people living with dementia and the use of music therapy in stroke rehabilitation all attest to music’s beautiful relationship with human physiology.  

Amongst some of the more intangible potential benefits of using ELT and educational children’s songs is the way that music can help to bring shy children out of themselves. Through catchy melodies, infectious rhythms or moments of gentle humour, music can help to liberate our quieter friends to connect and engage in a way that traditional learning may not afford them. 

This, along with all the other benefits music offers, such as its ability to lower affective filters and increase positive attitudes to learning, make ELT and educational children’s songs a fantastic way to support a whole-child approach to learning and development.

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