2.1 The characteristics of English songs
First, an English song affection is rich,beautiful rhyme, pleasant. Depending on its emotional expression ability, it can make the listener to create a relaxed atmosphere, so that the listener can't help the humming along, completely attracted not feel nervous or shy, can be overcome by one's feelings will love lyric in spoken English.
Second, English songs is a good listening materials. Compared with other listening materials, English song more content is vivid, simple words and phrases, form a lively and interesting, moving, unforgettable, not boring, often listen to training hearing ability, and then improve the spoken language ability is a great help.
Third, English songs cover a large number of linguistic knowledge, and contains many colloquial expressions, mainly reflected in the vocabulary, grammar, syntax, idioms, English is not only the written language variants, in fact, especially in the local people in the conversation, contains a wide range of idiomatic expressions, many of which differ from the written language, for example, the song appeared in" Don ' t know why?" lack of Subject in oral English, which often appear in the Ellipsis . In addition, the song appears in great quantities in vocabulary, expression, even the grammar knowledge, if only simple rote memorization, effects is very small, so the use of songs, the concise precise, logical, easy to pronounce to help memory is also a good choice, for example: in Casablanca " As time goes by" and "Yesterday once more" " look back on" and" recall" like that" memories", use the song to be lively and vivid language knowledge to expand blindly boring recitation is easier. Moreover, the advent of a new era, many new words are also emerge in an endless stream, lifting the popular English song is equivalent to be with new and popular language.
2.2 The theoretical basis of English songs
2.2.1. Application of English songs in accord with students' age psychological characteristics and cognitive rules
2.2.1.1 with students age psychological characteristics.
The psychological characteristics of the students are from the thinking in images the transition to abstract thinking, abstract thinking on image thinking support. Students like visual and vivid, let them boring to recite English words, like tied them up, students can mood? By listening, singing in English teaching, language and context binding, creating vivid, lively classroom learning atmosphere, students have a pleasant at the same time, more activation in the study of the psychological drive, so that the brain is full of vigor and vitality(Xie Jingrong,2008).