Prisustvo muzičkih elemenata u nastavi španskog kao stranog jezika
Presence of Music Elements in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyze the presence of musical elements as well as the importance ofthe use of music in the process of learning a foreign language with a focus on the teachingof Spanish as a foreign language. Music and language have numerous common characteristics that arerecognizable through rhythm, melody, intonation, dynamics and represent a form of continuous mutualcommunication. Music stimulates the activity of the right hemisphere of the brain, thus encouragingcreativity and imagination as key motivators in the learning process. Our research deals with the analysisof the presence of elements related to music in the textbooks used in the teaching of Spanish as a foreignlanguage at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. A quantitative analysis of the corpus identified examples that represent musical content or refer to musical elements within the teaching. The aimof this research was to identify which musical content is present in the textbooks and at what level of learning Spanish as a foreign language (A1-B2) and which language competences and skills develop withthe help of the identified content. The hypothesis of this research was that musical content would be morepresent at lower levels of learning when the student is expected to memorize new words and grammaticalconstructions. The corpus analysis showed that music in foreign language teaching provides lexical andcultural input. The results of this research confirm that musical content can be used for the purpose ofpracticing and improving both receptive and productive language skills, and for the purpose of developingand enriching students’ lexical, grammatical and intercultural competence, especially at lower levels oflearning. With music, we can improve our pronunciation, practice intonation, expand our vocabulary,learn grammatical structures and understand the culture of the other

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