Islamic scholars have stated that educators need to play the function of a teacher and achieve the dignity of being an educator, educate with love, possess fine morals and guide others towards benefit. In today's modern world, educators need to be knowledgeable and at the same time always diversify teaching techniques in order to be more effective and interesting to students. This paper aims to present and make recommendations for various classroom activities and ideas, especially Nasheed songs for use in language classes. Essentially, using Nasheed songs in classroom activities is one of the ways to diversify the use of music genres in the teaching and learning process. Using English Nasheed songs laden with positive moral values could reduce the anxiety of learning English, and provide an engaging, soothing and enjoyable experience for language learners. By using the proposed language games and activities, English teachers bring forward the use of Nasheed songs with its melodious music arts and good moral values and incorporate language skills games and critical thinking skills together in a meaningful teaching and learning process. It is hoped that this article would add to the knowledge on a diversified music genre which is English Nasheed songs and contribute towards assisting teachers in using Nasheed songs in the language classroom.
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To Cite this Article: Misman, J., Rahman, N. F. N. A., Sharipp, M. T. M., Abdullah, N. N. N., Soekarno, M., & Kassim, H. (2022). Classroom Activities Using English Nasheed Songs. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 12(10), 1010–1023.
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