This article proposes a theoretical foundation and practical strategies for incorporating
pedagogical songs and corresponding gestures into the language classroom. Music and …

Despite humor's promise as an educational tool in language learning contexts, questions of
appropriateness, cultural sensitivity, and student expectations cannot be ignored. This is …

The use of humor in EFL across the world has been widely discussed as an effective way to
create a more comfortable, productive classroom environment in language learning …

Humor is a concept that has been examined so far in several fields of study such as health,
philosophy, or history, to name a few. In education, the use of humor has been presented as …

Drawing upon self-determination theory, flow theory, and the engagement literature, this
study explored language tasks that English as a foreign language (EFL) college students …

Humor is a fundamental pedogical tool that EFL teachers can utilize in the classroom to
maximize their effectiveness. Furthermore, humor in pedagogy is a basic tool that can help …

This project provides a sample of the curriculum, Rapping English, which uses rap/hip-hop
style music to teach ELLs vocabulary, grammar, discourse and prosody. The rationale for …

This study explores the immediate and delayed impacts of songs on implicit vocabulary
learning in terms of spoken-form recognition (SFR), form-meaning connection (FMC), and …

This paper aimed at investigating humor in text-based computer mediated communication
(CMC). To this end, 200 turns exchanged by a number of 50 English language teachers on …

The word humor can be defined as something which is perceived to be funny, comical, or
amusing. However, in the case of humor perception plays a key role. This is mainly because …