A qualitative analysis about the use of music in the English textbooks of Primary Education

Music has a great potential as a facilitator vehicle to accelerate the process of learning English as a foreign language. This article is a brief overview of the history of linguistics from the traditional Grammar-Translation method to the present methods like CLIL and Student Centered Learning. We investigated different methods of recognized educators and researchers who established parallels between music and language, and we concrete in which aspects music can help to facilitate accelerated learning of English by providing a holistic education. Finally we elaborated a qualitative analysis of textbooks of English 3rd grade of Primary Education of three different publishers, using a template for recording data in which we observe how music is used as a resource and it is not given all the importance it may have to establish a meaningful and lasting learning.