Genres: A Modern Music Textbook for Android

11 things about Genres: A Modern Music Textbook

1. It is a language learning textbook for Japanese, Korean, and Chinese learners but can also be used by native English speakers to simply learn more about music.

2. Genres aims to not only teach about music, but also to teach specific language skills.

3. Genres is a textbook that discusses of 34 popular Western music genres spanning over 100 years.

4. In addition to the textbook, teachers can contact the creator of GENRES to obtain a huge database of cloze questions for each of the 170 key terms taught.

5. Through the 500 songs recommended, teachers can also easily provide students with listening practice by choosing a particular song to make a cloze exercise from its lyrics.

6. Furthermore, teachers can also obtain three reading comprehension questions for each of the 34 music genre chapters that can also be easily used for creating quizzes, mid-term and final exams.

7. Included are approximately 500 song recommendations, hand-picked by a well-versed music enthusiast to best represent the genres discussed.

8. Although it is mainly an intermediate to high level multi-skill English language textbook, the materials are so engaging that native speakers can even enjoy and learn from its contents.

9. In addition to discussing each style of music, Genres also recommends songs and albums as well.

10. While every learning situation is unique, it is estimated that Genres can provide enough content to fill an entire semester of a typical university course (thirty 90 minute classes).

11. James has published a number of research articles related to language learning over the years, particularly focusing on various aspects of vocabulary acquisition.