ON THE NET : Finding Song Lyrics Online
2001; University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Volume: 5; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1094-3501
AutoresJean W. LeLoup, Robert Ponterio,
Tópico(s)Second Language Acquisition and Learning
ResumoMost foreign language teachers enjoy studying song as authentic text in their classes. Songs can be used at all levels and for a wide variety of activities and purposes such as comprehension, vocabulary introduction, illustration or recognition of grammar structures, and reinforcement of topics. Traditional or new children's songs, musical classics, or the latest pop hits are all fair game. rhythm and melody of songs can make the words and expressions easier to remember and more enjoyable for students than other sorts of texts. But providing written support for the can sometimes be a problem. Photocopying the from the album cover might not meet the needs of a specific activity if some modification, such as blanking out some words or adding definitions, is required. Retyping or transcribing the takes time that the teacher might not be able to spare, though, of course, transcribing is a good listening activity for us teachers as well as for our students. Internet has become a useful source of song that can be copied into a word processor and transformed into an activity for class use. Sometimes these can be easy to find, but teachers often ask us for help locating songs that they have searched for in vain. We will explore some of the kinds of sites where song may be found and describe some techniques that can help teachers use WWW search engines to locate the to a particular song more quickly. When searching for song lyrics, one needs to think a bit differently from the way one might approach searching for other kinds of information online. Many teachers begin by looking for a good Web site for song lyrics. Although there are some sites that do present a selection of as a corpus, in most cases this is not a productive search strategy because the songs are generally not collected in one place but rather distributed around the Internet in millions of different sites. Where can one find these songs? Record labels often have official Web sites for their artists that provide a variety of information about their activities and usually add a and/or lyrics section that might include song lyrics. This site for Patricia Kaas is managed by Sony Music: http://www.sonymusic.fr/kaas/ Some companies seem to be very protective of their control of the and have even closed down private sites that put online. Official and unofficial fan club sites sometimes duplicate or replace the function of record label in promoting the artist. For example, discography and pages for Mecano can be found at the MecanoWeb site: http ://www.geocities.com/~mecanoweb/LETRAS.html http ://www.geocities.com/mecanoweb/DISCOGRAFIAmecano.html Other private sites by individual music fans are another option, and these might be located anywhere in the world. http://members.es.tripod.de/Ananta/letras/mecano.htm Many individuals might have a reason to include the text of a particular song on a Web page. If you need the for all of the songs on an album, the most efficient search strategy will likely be different than if you simply need to find a particular song. There are many search engines for the Web whose results will be similar, so it is not necessary to use any particular site. Some people have a preference for a certain search engine, and this is fine. A few favorites are Altavista.com, Google.com, Snap.com, Yahoo.com, Lycos.com. Many search engines allow the user to specify sites in a particular language, but this is generally not useful as few Web sites bother to label their language. So including a language in the search might even prevent finding the pages you need. most important feature to use when searching for songs is using quotation marks to identify a string of words that go together. Twinkle, twinkle little should locate the title that we intend to find, but without the quotation marks we might also find The little star will twinkle brightly. …
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